
Racket: Why I Think It’s a Great Language, and Why I’m Not Using It Anymore
Leandro Facchinetti
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Leandro Facchinetti

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Imperial College London

Build Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf

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Jane Street

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ClojureTV

CppCon

Google TechTalks

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CppCon

Curry On!

elm-conf

Justin Cormack

Jonathan Blow

Reboot Develop

Confreaks

Data Is Beautiful

Curry On!

InfoQ

Strange Loop Conference

Dyalog User Meetings

ClojureTV

NWCPP - Northwest C++ Users Group

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

ClojureTV

AI Council

Google TechTalks

Metosin

GreenArraysInc

Strange Loop Conference

yapcasia

Confreaks

Wolfram

Enthought

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Confreaks

London Haskell

Stanford

Edward Kmett

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