From: Jim Pryor Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:16:45 +0000 (-0400) Subject: racket:scheme::firefox:html X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc05a84c34f869f9c386deafd778b8ea644c7d83;hp=0bec426ca6b6e8672c487a1b9f0a3ef1823d267a racket:scheme::firefox:html Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- diff --git a/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn b/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn index 0bfcef28..a54e9ba5 100644 --- a/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn +++ b/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ another Scheme implementation, though, there's no compelling reason to switch.) Since the name change is so recent, you're likely to run across both sets of names. +PLT/Racket stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML. It's one program among others for working with the language; and many of the available programs permit different extensions, have small variations, and so on. + PLT Scheme had several components. The two most visible components for us were the command-line interpreter "mzscheme" and a teaching-friendly editor/front-end "DrScheme". In Racket these have been renamed "racket" and "DrRacket", diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index a5655312..e3053dae 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 "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 @@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ PLT Scheme, and has just in the past few weeks changed their name to Racket. 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,