> 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…
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…
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…
Indeed. Fixed!
Haha. Touché.
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/pollen. I'd…
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
Indeed. Fixed!
Haha. Touché.
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/pollen. I'd…
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…