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@@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.)
 
        +       [How to Design Programs](http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/), by Matthias Felleisen, et al., which the Racket groups recommends. Whenever the book says "Scheme," you can read it as "Racket."
 
 
        +       [How to Design Programs](http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/), by Matthias Felleisen, et al., which the Racket groups recommends. Whenever the book says "Scheme," you can read it as "Racket."
 

-       Another warmly-recommended introduction available online is:
-
-       +       [Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html)
+       Another warmly-recommended introduction available online is [Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html) This is a short introductory text that introduces common Scheme techniques.

 
 *      If you're already a programmer and you're in more of a hurry, you could instead look at the [Quick Introduction to Racket](http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html). This tutorial provides a brief introduction to the Racket programming language by using DrRacket and one of Racket's picture-drawing libraries.
 
 
 *      If you're already a programmer and you're in more of a hurry, you could instead look at the [Quick Introduction to Racket](http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html). This tutorial provides a brief introduction to the Racket programming language by using DrRacket and one of Racket's picture-drawing libraries.
 


@@ -84,20 +82,17 @@ different handy extensions. The first standard was published in 1975. A
 revision was published in 1978 called "The revised report on Scheme, a
 dialect of Lisp." Thereafter, revisions of the standard were titled "The
 Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for
 revision was published in 1978 called "The revised report on Scheme, a
 dialect of Lisp." Thereafter, revisions of the standard were titled "The
 Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for

-short, for increasing n. The most widely implemented standard is [The
-Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://docs.racket-lang.org/r5rs/index.html),
+short. One widely implemented standard is [The
+Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/),

 or R5RS, published in 1998.
 or R5RS, published in 1998.

-\[ [Alt link](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/) \]
-A new standard [R6RS](http://docs.racket-lang.org/r6rs/index.html) was ratified
+A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) was ratified

 in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the
 in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the

-community.
-\[ [Alt link](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html);
-[Libraries](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html) \]
+community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))

 
 

-*      [Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
+ 

 
 

+*      [Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)

 *      [Scheme Requests for Implementation](http://srfi.schemers.org/) (SRFI)
 *      [Scheme Requests for Implementation](http://srfi.schemers.org/) (SRFI)

-

 *      The [Schematics Scheme Cookbook](http://schemecookbook.org/) is a collaborative effort to produce documentation and recipes for using Scheme for common tasks.
 
 
 *      The [Schematics Scheme Cookbook](http://schemecookbook.org/) is a collaborative effort to produce documentation and recipes for using Scheme for common tasks.
 
 


@@ -107,11 +102,11 @@ community.
 *      [[!wikipedia Y combinator]]
 *      [Chapter 9 from The Little Schemer](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.ps) on the Y Combinator "...and Again, and Again, and Again..."
 *      [The Y combinator](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2700.html)
 *      [[!wikipedia Y combinator]]
 *      [Chapter 9 from The Little Schemer](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.ps) on the Y Combinator "...and Again, and Again, and Again..."
 *      [The Y combinator](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2700.html)

+*      [The Why of Y](http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf)

 *      [The Y Combinator (Slight Return), or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html)
 *      [Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers](http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/y-combinator-for-dysfunctional-non-schemers/)
 *      [The Y Combinator](http://www.ece.uc.edu/~franco/C511/html/Scheme/ycomb.html)
 *      [The Y Combinator (Slight Return), or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html)
 *      [Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers](http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/y-combinator-for-dysfunctional-non-schemers/)
 *      [The Y Combinator](http://www.ece.uc.edu/~franco/C511/html/Scheme/ycomb.html)

-*      [The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html), described as:
-       > This is the derivation of the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. The following derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little LISPer by Friedman/Felleisen, but uses a slightly different starting approach...
+*      [The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html) derives the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. This derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little Schemer, but uses a slightly different starting approach...

 
 ## Evaluation Order ##
 
 
 ## Evaluation Order ##
 


@@ -139,13 +134,25 @@ community.
 
 ## Learning OCaml ##
 
 
 ## Learning OCaml ##
 

-*      [[!wikipedia Objective Caml]]
+*      [[!wikipedia Objective Caml desc="Wikipedia overview of OCaml"]]
+
+*      [A Concise Introduction to Objective Caml](http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~dmatusze/resources/ocaml/ocaml.html)
+
+*      Here are [two](http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~scott/pl/lectures/caml-intro.html) [other](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/stephan.html) brief overviews of OCaml, aimed at readers who already have some programming experience. Here are [two](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/exemples-eng.html) [more](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/qrg-eng.html), even briefer.
+
+*      Here's a [more detailed tutorial](http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/) for OCaml.
+
+*      Jason Hickey has posted a [draft of a nice book introducing OCaml](http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf).
+
+*      FAQs for [OCaml Beginners](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html), and [a few more](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/faq/). Also FAQs for [OCaml Experts](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html).
+

 
 ## Side-effects / mutation ##
 
 *      [[!wikipedia Side effect (computer science) desc="Side effects"]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Reference (computer science) desc="References"]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Pointer (computing) desc="Pointers"]]
 
 ## Side-effects / mutation ##
 
 *      [[!wikipedia Side effect (computer science) desc="Side effects"]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Reference (computer science) desc="References"]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Pointer (computing) desc="Pointers"]]

+*      [Pointers in OCaml](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/guides/pointers.html)

 
 ## Monads ##
 
 
 ## Monads ##
 


@@ -249,9 +256,9 @@ invited talk, *19'th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages*, ACM Pres
 
 *      [Understanding continuations](http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2004/Jul/11/continuations) [Commentary](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/86)
 
 
 *      [Understanding continuations](http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2004/Jul/11/continuations) [Commentary](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/86)
 

-*      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation
+*      [[!wikipedia Continuation]]

 
 

-*      http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Continuation
+*      [Haskell wiki on Continuations](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Continuation)

 
 *      [Continuations In Scheme](http://tech.phillipwright.com/2010/05/23/continuations-in-scheme/)
 
 
 *      [Continuations In Scheme](http://tech.phillipwright.com/2010/05/23/continuations-in-scheme/)