Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket? (beautifulracket.com)
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threepio Jul 16, 2019 | on: Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf] | context

> What needs to be shown is a set of problems that can adequately be solved by racket that cannot be solved as well with competing languages

I thought the piece "Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?" covered that question pretty well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232068

Perhaps there's another modern programming language that can do these things as easily as Racket. I haven't come across it, however.

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