mbutterick

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by mbutterick 11y ago
FWIW I go between DrRacket and Sublime Text as necessary. Sublime is of course faster for typical writing & editing tasks. But when working on code-related things, the DrRacket REPL is useful.
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by mbutterick 11y ago
> It strikes me as fashionable to hate on javascript. Please name another programming language whose inventor has described it as having “a lot of stupid in it.” It’s no longer a matter of fashion. It’s a matter of authoritative opinion
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by mbutterick 11y ago
This is Matthew Butterick. I wrote “Why Racket? Why Lisp?” As I allude there, Paul Graham’s writings about Lisp (mostly in Hackers & Painters) helped persuade me to explore Lisp languages. (Those writings have also persuaded many others
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by mbutterick 12y ago
I didn't start from scratch. I built the project on top of Racket & Scribble (which itself has similarities to TeX). Bear in mind that creating Pollen was a side mission of the main project: making the website http://pra
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by mbutterick 12y ago
You can use MathJax inside Pollen today. As far as building more integrated support for math typesetting, I'd like to do that, but what I'm not sure about yet are the ergonomics. Ideally, you'd just be able to drop TeX-style
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by mbutterick 12y ago
Indeed. Fixed!
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by mbutterick 12y ago
Haha. Touché.
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by mbutterick 12y ago
Hi, this is Matthew Butterick. If you have specific questions about Pollen's capabilities (e.g., "how hard would it be to ...") I encourage you to post them to the GitHub repo at http://github.com/mbutterick&#
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by mbutterick 13y ago
Hi, this is Matthew Butterick. I wrote "The Bomb in the Garden." Yes, there is something you can do to support me — well, forget me, I'm not important. But the question I'm interested in is important. So if more people s