Learn about language-oriented programming and support the Racket project at the same time: 50% of presells go to the Racket developers to support this year's RacketCon. You choose how much you'd like to contribute.
WTF is “language-oriented programming”?
Racket’s more than just a batteries-included Lisp. It’s about solving problems by making languages; language-oriented programming is the name of the game. The idea has an immediate intuitive appeal. Perhaps it’s what drove you to Racket in the first place. And if it wasn’t, chances are good, if you stick around the community for a while, that you’ll find yourself thinking about languages.
But what are we talking about when we talk about “language-oriented programming”?
The term has a variety of meanings
Looking around the Racket community & among its fellow travelers, one finds that “make your own language” has a variety of senses. Although some common ideas can be common, they get expressed in different ways. At times, one wonders: are we all talking about the same thing?
To help foster the growth of language-oriented programming in general—and Racket in particular as the best environment for solving problems in that way—it’s important that we understand the diversity of meanings of “language-oriented programming” and kindred expressions.
So who can say what it means?
A good place to help develop an understanding of language-oriented programming is the Racket community itself, and especially its principal drivers.
Language-oriented Programming with Racket: A Cultural Anthropology is a short PDF ebook that contains the result of a survey that I'm taking of core Racket developers about what “make your own language” means to them.
Coming September 29, 2018, just in time for RacketCon
You'll receive your copy on September 29, 2018, the first day of the (eighth RacketCon).
Whether you can attend RacketCon or not—and especially if you can't—this ebook is a great way to both learn about one of Racket's code ideas, as well as support the project. Because I'm not doing this for myself: 50% of sales will go to the Racket developers.
If you'd like to really dig in to Racket, and support the developers of this fantastic programming language, Language-oriented Programming in Racket: A Cultural Anthropology is a great way to do it.
