[kenko]

It seems as if several of the author's problems come, oddly for someone who's used both strict (Pascal) and non-strict (Haskell) langauges, from being confused about Racket's strictness. Why is time a special form? Because otherwise (time (expensive)) would just get the result of (expensive). Why doesn't (list 1 (2 3) 4) work? Because list isn't a special form, it's a function. Why doesn't quote turn '(list 1 2 3) into '(1 2 3)? (Well, this one isn't about evaluation order, admittedly.) Because if it did it ... wouldn't be quote.

[artyomkazak]

Pascal is strict, but it still has stuff like “move(var1, var2)”, out parameters, etc., so it's also call-by-reference.

I didn't know at the time that Racket was call-by-value.

Quote was confusing at first, yes.