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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Many off these links are to Wikipedia. You can learn a lot from such articles,
+Many of these links are to Wikipedia. You can learn a lot from such articles,
 so long as you remember they may sometimes mislead or make mistakes. However, I
 hope at this point in your education you'll have learned to be a guarded reader
 even of authoritative treatises by eminent authors. So you shouldn't need any
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.)
 *	[[!wikipedia B,C,K,W system]]
 	<!-- Jeroen Fokker, The Systematic Construction of a One-combinator Basis for Lambda-Terms. Formal Aspects of Computing 4 (1992), pp. 776-780
 	http://people.cs.uu.nl/jeroen/article/combinat/combinat.ps -->
-*	[Chris Barker's Iota and Jot]() (broken link)<p>
+*	[Chris Barker's Iota and Jot](http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/)
 *	[[!wikipedia Church-Rosser theorem]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Normalization property]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]<p>
@@ -89,9 +89,13 @@ Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for
 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.
-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
-community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
+was ratified in 2007, and this is implemented in Racket; but it also has many detractors and has not been fully
+accepted in the community. As a result, the Scheme language [may in the future split](http://scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html)
+into a lean, minimal base, closer to
+R5RS Scheme, and a richer language like R6RS Scheme that standardizes many of the add-ons that programmers tend to build
+on top of the base.
+
 *	[Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
 *	[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.