scripting language vs. developer community size

Christopher Browne cbbrowne@mail.hex.net
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:49:45 -0600


On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:48:53 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net>  said:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:44:02PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> > The world "could use" something akin to Graham's "On Lisp" that was,
> > instead, "On Scheme."  Kent Dybvig's book on ANSI Scheme, which also
> > happens to be available on the web, seems to me to be about the best
> > text on the language.
> 
> Maybe we should post a link to that resource on the developer page?

Ready for cutting/pasting, in HTML or DocBook, whichever be preferred:

<li> <a href= "http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/index.html"> The Scheme
Programming Language, 2nd Edition (Online copy of Kent Dybvig's book)
</a>

<listitem><para> <ulink url=
"http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/index.html"> The Scheme Programming
Language, 2nd Edition (Online copy of Kent Dybvig's book) </ulink>
</para> </listitem>

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