[plt-scheme] EOPL pre-requisites?

> It looks like *the* book out there is Essentials of Programming Languages.

There are other players in town.  Let me not-so-humbly suggest that a
significant competitor is PLAI:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

My FAQ

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/FAQ/

explains the relationship to EoPL.

> Folks say that this is one tough book, though. They go on and on about
> it about the fact that it is so so challenging (and in the same breath
> also say that no other book does as well a job).

"They" may not have seen all the available alternatives. (-:

Shriram