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From Macros to DSLs: The Evolution of Racket Culpepper, Ryan Felleisen, Matthias Flatt, Matthew Krishnamurthi, Shriram design principles macros systems domain-specific languages The Racket language promotes a language-oriented style of programming. Developers create many domain-specific languages, write programs in them, and compose these programs via Racket code. This style of programming can work only if creating and composing little languages is simple and effective. While Racket’s Lisp heritage might suggest that macros suffice, its design team discovered significant shortcomings and had to improve them in many ways. This paper presents the evolution of Racket’s macro system, including a false start, and assesses its current state. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen and Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi 2019 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 136, 3rd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2019) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2019.5 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105482 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2019.5 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode