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Beau­tiful Racket

an intro­duc­tion to language-oriented
program­ming using Racket
by Matthew Butt­erick · version 1.6

Start

• Intro­duc­tion
• Setup
• Acknowl­edg­ments
• About the author
• Legal

This book is not free

• How to pay for this book
• Why you should pay

Tutorials

• Make a language in one hour: stacker
• Learn some func­tional program­ming: funstacker
• Dive deeper into macros: stackerizer
• Follow the grammar: bf
• Extend a data format: jsonic
• Level up: jsonic revis­ited
• Finishing moves: jsonic
• Imagine a language: wires
• Go with the flow: basic
• Into the rapids: more basic
• Closing the loop: basic

Explainers

• Booleans & condi­tionals
• Contin­u­a­tions
• Contracts
• Data struc­tures
• Equality
• Errors & excep­tions
• Eval­u­a­tion
• Func­tions
• Hygiene
• Iden­ti­fiers
• Importing & exporting
• Inter­po­si­tion points
• The #lang line
• Lists
• Loops
• Macros
• Modules
• Numbers
• Pairs
• Para­me­ters
• Recur­sion
• The REPL
• String­like types
• Syntax objects
• Syntax patterns
• Unit testing

Appendix

• Master recipe
• Glos­sary
• From br to racket/base
• Resources
• Domain-specific languages
• The making of Beau­tiful Racket
• Why Racket? Why Lisp?
• Why language-oriented program­ming? Why Racket?
• Thoughts on Rhombus (formerly known as Racket2)
• Why I no longer contribute to Racket
• Thoughts on Racket & Chez Scheme

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