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Racket
Last night I wanted a brainless thing to do for a couple hours, so I went ahead and made the layout for the Do stones page. I had a particular motif in mind, and I've almost got it, but it meant drawing a sort of little curly shape. I tried doing it in the Gimp, downloaded Inkscape, couldn't get it looking right.
So I figured, I know exactly what shape I want, so I'll just write a program to draw it. I downloaded Racket, read up on its Turtle Graphics library, and partied like it was 1991.
Racket is the latest version (R6RS) of Scheme, a Lisp variant. I used it a lot in about 2006, not so much lately though.
Anyway, it was really fun. All the libraries work. Good documentation. It's not any harder to draw stuff or make a gui than it is to do math. It's really fun to tinker with.
So I figured, I know exactly what shape I want, so I'll just write a program to draw it. I downloaded Racket, read up on its Turtle Graphics library, and partied like it was 1991.
Racket is the latest version (R6RS) of Scheme, a Lisp variant. I used it a lot in about 2006, not so much lately though.
Anyway, it was really fun. All the libraries work. Good documentation. It's not any harder to draw stuff or make a gui than it is to do math. It's really fun to tinker with.