# \#langs that Fit in Your Head

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** advent-2024\
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404 "2024-12-09T09:04:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![countvajhula](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/countvajhula/32/65_2.png) [@countvajhula](https://racket.discourse.group/u/countvajhula)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404/1 "2024-12-09T09:04:46Z")

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Here's [#langs that Fit in Your Head](https://countvajhula.com/2024/12/09/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/), a post about writing "small" languages.

The irony is that I'm not sure this blog post fits in your head 😆 . Enjoy, and happy Advent of Racket Day 8!

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**Author:** ![countvajhula](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/countvajhula/32/65_2.png) [@countvajhula](https://racket.discourse.group/u/countvajhula)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404/2 "2024-12-10T20:29:59Z")

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Someone on Mastodon pointed out that the post was (as I feared) incomprehensible (to non-Racketeers, I think), so I made a lot of changes to make it more generally accessible, and it kind of ends up being even a bit of an introduction to Racket, so that's a nice side effect. Anyway, please give it another read if you felt it was dense the first time!

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**Author:** ![benknoble](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/benknoble/32/16_2.png) [@benknoble](https://racket.discourse.group/u/benknoble)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404/3 "2024-12-10T20:45:15Z")

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Is there somewhere I can view just the diff? That would be convenient for me 🙂

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**Author:** ![countvajhula](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/countvajhula/32/65_2.png) [@countvajhula](https://racket.discourse.group/u/countvajhula)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404/4 "2024-12-11T03:13:07Z")

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Ah, apologies, that would have been considerate of me. The Wordpress diff was an HTML diff 😓 , but I managed to generate a diff from a local plaintext draft: [diff from initial version](https://gist.github.com/countvajhula/6c7af5867867c59321fc1aadf40a6b3c).

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**Author:** ![benknoble](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/benknoble/32/16_2.png) [@benknoble](https://racket.discourse.group/u/benknoble)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/langs-that-fit-in-your-head/3404/5 "2024-12-12T03:42:07Z")

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Thanks, that was very helpful! A short Awk program helped me recover both sides of the diff (is there a standard way to do so?), which let me format the long lines and read the updates at my leisure.

Much obliged!