Functional Geekery Episode 133 - James Stelly 5a3v73

In this episode I talk with James Stelly. We talk his explorations of programming languages and how that led to his book Racket Programming the Fun Way.\r\n\n\n\n\nOur Guest, James Stelly.\n\n\n\nAnnouncements\n\n\n\nNo Starch Press has offered listeners a 30% discount on Racket Programming the Fun Way until the end of the year with discount code GEEKERY30.\r\n\n\n\n\nSome of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.\r\n\n\n\n\nIf that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.\r\n\n\n\n\nTopics [@1:10]\n\n\n\nWelcome James\r\nAbout James\r\nFortran\r\nC++\r\nMVS (Multiple Virtual Storage)\r\nFOCUS\r\nNOMAD\r\nAccess\r\nSql Server\r\nForth\r\nPython\r\nJ\r\nC#\r\nJavaScript\r\nScheme\r\nRacket\r\nLaTeX\r\nJames’ first exposure to a functional programming language\r\nF#\r\nPipeline operator (|>)\r\nStill having access to the rest of .NET ecosystem\r\nHaskell\r\nJames’ takeaways from playing with Haskell\r\nTyped Racket\r\nWhat drew James to Racket\r\nBroad tool changes\r\nInteractivity of Racket\r\nRacket Programming the Fun Way\r\nWriting the book as a way to learn Racket\r\nRacket being a “Swiss Army Knife”\r\nProlog and Logic Programming\r\nPossibility of expanding Automata Theory using macros\r\nRelationship to Racket\r\nBuilding a CNC machine\r\nG-Code\r\nGrbl\r\nArduino\r\nHow has playing with different language feed back into “day work”\r\nVisual Basic\r\nWhat was exciting ing Racket for the problems in the book\r\nLogic Programming\r\nSearch Algorithms\r\nWhy Racket\r\n“Most mileage out of and can do a lot of different things”\r\nDr. Racket environment\r\nHover over variable and see arrows showing usage\r\nWhat is the target audience of the book\r\nMatthew Flatt as the technical reviewer\r\n“Given everything in the book, that is just the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with Racket”\r\n\n\n\n\nAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.\r\n\n 3u1t4u