[plt-scheme] Re: from hell to paradise

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:33 AM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:00:35PM -0500, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
>> Grant Rettke wrote:
>>
>> >Also Peter Siebel's
>> >"Practical Common Lisp" or the "Real World Haskell" book are what
>> >people want to see so they feel like they are "doing something
>> >valuable" with what they learn. I don't see that in the FP world.
>>
>> I'm confused -- those books are in the FP world. Do you want something
>> like them for Scheme? I would point to the v4 documentation, already an
>> order of magnitude better than that for any comparable tool. I expect it
>> to get better. (If HtDP were a wiki, it would be transformed by now.)
>
> Maybe someone should start wuch a wiki.
>
> Perhaps wikibooks might be a suitable site.
>

I was just thinking "gosh with so many people if each wrote a
real-world application of scheme to 'real life' we would have a
'book'".

> -- hendrik
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