00:49 <shawnw> Yeah, that sounds like ignorance

03:52 <kengruven> is it feasible (i.e., without starting from scratch) to write a library/language which extends racket's numeric tower, to add a new type?

12:06 <bremner> was support for the environment variable PLT_EXTRA dropped from the racket build system? I see it referenced in the debian packaging, but not in the racket source anymore.

12:06 <bremner> Maybe during the switch to zuo, but then I'm surprised nothing broke for me earlier

12:10 <bremner> oh, nvm, that is just some local variable added to PLT_SETUP_OPTIONS

15:30 <bremner> can I force rackunit to report successful tests like the teaching languages (e.g. plai) do?

15:41 <dzoe> polarian: I've been teaching graph algorithms in Clojure for 5 years and using my own Racket implementation to create nice animations for that - I cannot think of a path-finding algorithm that cannot be implemented in Racket in a VERY straightforward way.

15:42 <dzoe> And especially when people are arguing like this, it is usually about something simple like generic BFS/DFS/Dijkstra/A* variations ... Which is a piece of cake in any Scheme.

15:51 <bremner> I think what they mean is that it is harder to cut and paste from stack overlflow

15:56 <dzoe> Point well made :-D