[racket] Learning Scheme and Racket

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>    Also if there are any articles that discuss the design decisions about
>>    Racket where it has diverged from the usual or standard form of Scheme.
>>    Not just where it differs but why it was made different.
>
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any good articles that broadly
> and explicitly compare Racket and Scheme. However, several articles have
> addressed "why Racket" such as these:

In a Reddit comment, I listed a *lot* of features that Racket has that
are missing in various Scheme standards:
  http://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/k8jiw/what_are_the_main_differences_between_racket_and/c2icbcg

Some of the other commenters in that thread point out a few big things
I missed, like Scribble.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu