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by neilv 2513 days ago
> Racket was designed to teach programming to young students,

I'd say that the "teaching languages" were designed for teaching students, and Racket was designed as the practical tool for implementing those languages and a cross-platform IDE to support them. As a result of this, and various subsequent community work, Racket is now practical for many purposes.

I said a little more about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507549