From https://sagegerard.com/racket-review.html

From a review of Clojure:

Huh?!?

I don’t know what’s expected here, but > (eq? 'foo 'foo) #f > (equal? 'foo 'foo) #t

That first one isn’t vanilla racket.

I typed racket and input both expressions; what do you mean @samth?

I mean that if that’s really what happened then there’s a bug somewhere

and also that isn’t what happens for me

I started typing before the REPL loaded, I guess, because when I hit up to go the past expressions to get a screenshot for proof, it showed > (eq? ''foo 'foo) You’re correct, both are true for me

ok that’s reassuring

Not to me; this happens pretty frequently that I can type something and what runs is not exactly what I saw. (But I see your point; at least it’s a user bug, not a racket bug)

Symbols without interning … that’s just strings.

@soegaard2 you might be interested in https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-symbolics-jl-a-modern-computer-algebra-system-for-a-modern-language/56251

Fateman’s comment is quite amusing: To insist that sqrt( (-x)^2) is -x, … well, you figure out the implications of that. Context:

I first tried to learn a LISP language with Clojure. I gave up after roughly two days, once I figured out that the official docs were (at the time at least) a poorly edited and out-of-date wiki.

My second attempt was Racket. I didn’t really have any major issues with Racket. At least it had some halfway-decent official docs.