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[PATCH] gnu: racket: update to 8.0.

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From: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>
To: 46865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#46865] [PATCH] gnu: racket: update to 8.0.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:06:14 -0500

I changed the description primarily because, as of Racket 8.0, it is no 
longer accurate to say, "It features a compiler and a virtual machine 
with just-in-time native compilation"—the default implementation is now 
a native code compiler based on Chez Scheme.

But there's certainly still room for improvement. In particular, I see 
that Nix is using the description:

> Racket is a full-spectrum programming language. It goes beyond
> Lisp and Scheme with dialects that support objects, types,
> laziness, and more. Racket enables programmers to link
> components written in different dialects, and it empowers
> programmers to create new, project-specific dialects. Racket's
> libraries support applications from web servers and databases to
> GUIs and charts.

The Racket project has used descriptions along those lines in other 
places before.

I left the synopsis, "Implementation of Scheme and related languages", 
alone, but that's also debatable. From a Racketeer's perspective,
Racket contains a Scheme implementation, but it is not primarily a 
Scheme implementation. Nix uses the short description, "A programmable 
programming language".

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