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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 04:56:06 UTC Nate Cull

   Sigh. It really is just Racket, I think, for any Schemelike language with prebuilt executables on Windows without a Posix emulation environment.

   So I have to figure out how to cripple its reader before I can begin.

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 04:43:06 UTC Nate Cull

     Ok so I tried to download MIT GNU Scheme because it runs on Windows and the installer ran fine and then I clicked the Start Menu icon and literally got this

     https://mastodon.social/media/AMHiypWWO4R2ZVyggvs

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 05:06:21 UTC Nate Cull

     in reply to

     (I have been through this loop many, many times.)

     I know I'm asking for a lot:

     * a Schemelike environment that runs *natively* on Windows and on Linux
     * that's currently maintained
     * with full native desktop GUI bindings
     * and a system-native GUI editor/IDE that speaks the same keyboard/mouse shortcut dialect the host OS does
     * with a syntax that doesn't reserve special characters because I want to try to write a DSL in it for authoring text adventures

     I guess I'm never going to get that last

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 05:33:54 UTC Nate Cull

     in reply to

     The only actual thing to do I guess is to try to read through all the Racket packages at https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ and see if someone has already done what I need.

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 05:37:45 UTC Nate Cull

     in reply to

     Well, this might be a clue.

     See, someone ELSE has already been mightily pissed off by that weird vertical bar thing!

     http://docs.racket-lang.org/no-vert-bar-lang/index.html

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 05:43:26 UTC Nate Cull

     in reply to

     But good lord this is what you have to do just to disable backslashes.

     It's heroic and glorious but...

     https://github.com/AlexKnauth/no-vert-bar-lang/blob/master/no-backslash/lang/reader.rkt

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