X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=af63cf9d540cf58e7a3f87f06b29cfe356fc8720;hp=74aaddf96e792d606cfb48fcac3f65926b386212;hb=ab1fdd8bbd471a3d81f15c8ffc3fefc4283cbb76;hpb=d84080ee53c691870c5a8cf462e08bcc5b888104 diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 74aaddf9..af63cf9d 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ and Caml, which are prominent *functional programming languages*. We'll explain 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 "Common Lisp." Scheme +of programming languages. 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 @@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ 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, +family of programming languages. Caml has only one active implementation, OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France. * Those of you with some programming background may have encountered a third