## Announcements ##
-The seminar meets on Mondays, starting September 13, from 4-6.
-We'll be meeting in the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place on the first floor (room 104).
+The seminar meets on Mondays from 4-6, in
+the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 104 (back of the first floor).
We've sent around an email to those who left their email addresses on the roster we passed around. But it's clear that the roster didn't make its way to everyone. So if you didn't receive our email this evening, please email <mailto:jim.pryor@nyu.edu> with your email address, and if you're a student, say whether you expect to audit or take the class for credit.
what that means during the course.
* **Scheme** is one of two major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family
-of programming languages. The other dialect is called "CommonLisp." Scheme
+of programming languages. The other dialect is called "Common Lisp." Scheme
is the more clean and minimalistic dialect, and is what's mostly used in
academic circles.
Scheme itself has umpteen different "implementations", which share most of
This is what we recommend you use. (If you're already using or comfortable with
another Scheme implementation, though, there's no compelling reason to switch.)
+ Racket stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML.
+
* **Caml** is one of two major dialects of *ML*, which is another large
family of programming languages. The other dialect is called "SML" and has
several implementations. But Caml has only one active implementation,