Subject: Re: scheme history
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/02/01
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <876mms$1jja4@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Alexander Taranov  <tay@jet.msk.su> wrote:
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| does anybody know any reference on scheme history? 
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The Scheme specification itself contains a fairly good
summary of the background (with many references). See
<URL:http://www.sonic.net/~bear/scheme/r5rs.html#SEC3>
and <URL:http://www.sonic.net/~bear/scheme/r5rs.html#SEC4>.


-Rob

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