[racket] Racket vs Scheme, macros and new syntax

At Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:31:04 -0800, Scott Klarenbach wrote:
> In other words, Is Racket simply a philosophy/convention of language
> oriented programming with convenient syntactic wrappers to this end, or
> does it more fundamentally extend Scheme to do things technically *impossible
> *in that language?

The latter --- a more fundamental extension to Scheme.

Here's our most recent attempt to explain:

 http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/jfp12-draft-fcdf.pdf