X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=9d85c39cffebef67877c2a9350b89af192ee51b6;hp=c581a3ee038c85a92585cdcb7ccc28f3953a403f;hb=57739043b3b2fc362b4e650a6b576dbbb71eee21;hpb=79cec6a35353e38753e06837b4613b729dce9e8c diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index c581a3ee..9d85c39c 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 103 (front of the first One student session will be held every Wednesday from XX-YY at WHERE. --> -## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|topics_and_themes.mdwn]] ## - +## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|topics/content.mdwn]] ## ## Announcements ## @@ -179,7 +178,6 @@ strictly exclusive. The labels are better thought of as concerning different of the extent to which they emphasize, and are designed around those idioms. Languages like Python and JavaScript are sometimes themselves described as "more functional" than other languages, like C. - In any case, here is some more context for the three languages we will be focusing on. * **Scheme** is one of two or three major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family @@ -192,6 +190,8 @@ the operating system differently. One major implementation is called Racket, and that 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. (Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),