[plt-scheme] Equivalent of K&R for Scheme?

Oh yes. That's the K&R equivalent.

Robby

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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>  Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language/4th, MIT Press. scheme.com
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>  On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Yavuz Arkun wrote:
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> > What Scheme book would be closest analogue to C's K&R? I consider the
> essentials of K&R to be (roughly in descending order of importance):
> >
> > --Aims to teach the target language as opposed to programming in general
> > --Doesn't suffer from page bloat unlike typical American textbooks
> > --Covers the entire language, at least in essentials
> > --Uses complete, if smallish, programs as examples and exercises
> > --Doesn't treat the reader as a complete nincompoop, unlike typical
> introductory American textbooks
> > --Doesn't leave out hard-to-teach bits "in the interests of concentrating
> on the essentials"
> > --Doesn't include barely relevant but impressively obscure quotations at
> every chapter
> > --Is mercifully free of "foo" and "bar"
> >
> > (OK, the last two are maybe not that essential, but they help.)
> >
> > Online availability of a free copy is a definite plus. Thanks in advance
> for your help.
> >
> > --Yavuz
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