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Racket gets in your head like nothing else. Once you learn it, (Scheme does this too) you get x-ray vision to see every other language modulo syntax.

I have been writing Elixir professionally for the bulk of my career. (It’s been pretty awesome!) Despite this, I consider Racket to be my native language because it’s so easy for me to think in Racket. It’s the perfect bridge between my brain and the problem domain.



Modulo is the wrong word.


No, it’s actually the right word. I’m saying you see past syntax and get to the underlying semantics of PLs after learning Racket. (And modulo is a perfectly acceptable word to express this.)




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