I guess a few of us have been through a programming language concepts course, and felt that the matter is really interesting, but that it could be better connected to what's happening on the ground. This guy is vocalising that perspective.

Also, Racket is promising. I think this is the first time we've had a scheme platform that has this combination:

- Simple installation

- Solid package management arrangements.

- Multiplatform

- Nice IDE.

- Free software

- Easy access to unix api

Other lisps have had a couple of these features. But Racket is the first lisp I've seen that feels like a serious alternative to perl/ruby/python. It may lack a solid standard library - I haven't looked into this yet.