<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p dir=ltr>I have been interested in the Lisp family of languages for a while.  My short term reason for studying the book is to get a handle on Scheme for programming on the Android platform.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Steve</p>
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                            Neil Van Dyke <neil@neilvandyke.org>;                            <br>
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                            Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>; Racket-users <users@racket-lang.org>;                                                                             <br>
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                            Re: [racket] Questions from a new user                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top">Steve, welcome to Racket.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regarding your Scheme questions... Unless you have an unusual reason <br clear="none">that you need to use some Scheme dialect, rather than Racket[*]... then <br clear="none">I strongly suspect that you want to just learn Racket for now, without <br clear="none">everyone getting confused, talking about the various dialects of Scheme. <br clear="none">  (The situation is different than, say, standards of FORTRAN.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[*] Hypothetical reason why someone would want to learn 'Scheme' rather <br clear="none">than Racket: they want to code for an old microcontroller for which <br clear="none">there is only an R3RS subset compiler.  If this is your situation, then <br clear="none">let us know; otherwise, talking about 'Scheme' would be doing you a <br clear="none">disservice.<br clear="none"><br
 clear="none">Neil V.<div class="yqt3260582029" id="yqtfd21275"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></td>
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