Thanks for the highly accurate description of PLT and PLT Scheme. I founded PLT as an academic but I am one who appreciates the necessity to open a channel of communication between the 'real' world and academia.
While Matthew and Robby are the "drivers" (with lots of co-pilots :-) I think that setting this tone early in the project has placed PLT Scheme naturally in a lonely niche: it is a real scripting language with capabilities that rival those of everything out there and it is also a serious academic infrastructure. Typed Scheme -- the first and only sound 'gradual typing' language so far -- is just an example of what I mean. We can publish about this in the flagship research conference on programming languages and at the same time, we are using it for its intended applications. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is porting a part of DrScheme to Typed Scheme as I type. It is this kind of experiment -- porting a piece that your "life" depends on -- that puts us squarely on the applied side, too.
For what it's worth I'm trying it out on v360 because thats what I happened to have installed, and so far no problems. Although I haven't really done much. If I run into anything I will post.
I went through some of the examples in the tutorial with v360, but when I tried the hello web app, it failed. Not sure if it's due to v360, or not. I guess I can uninstall it and install v352 :(
Same here on a ubuntu 7.10 gutsy 64amd. There's no (easy) way to do an install for v352 w/o doing a source compile (works) and manually installing the files (can't be stuffed).
