Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Path: utzoo!sq!dak From: dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen) Subject: Re: Scheme Reference Book Message-ID: <1990Dec6.182746.23972@sq.sq.com> Organization: SoftQuad Inc. References: Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 18:27:46 GMT Lines: 25 wa@raven.cad.mcc.com (Wayne Allen) writes: >Do any of you know of a good Scheme reference book to recommend. I like >Dybvig's "The Scheme Lanaguage", but I feel we need something which >more closely follows (or more clearly identifies) the standard forms >of R3/R4. I usually point people to the P1178D5 draft of the IEEE proto-standard; It's available on zurich.ai.mit.edu. _Scheme and the Art of Programming_ by Springer and Friedman is a good general introduction to Scheme; I think that working directly from the standard is best for reference. (My .signature should be taken as tongue-in-cheek; actually, the Scheme standard is my favorite standard of recent times; it's small and clean, and therefore reflects the language very nicely. Nice work, folks!) Regards, Dak -- David A. 'Dak' Keldsen of SoftQuad, Inc. email: dak@sq.com phone: 416-963-8337 "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." -- Plato, _Phaedrus_ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com