RE: Functional Paradigm popularity and Maths

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <address@hidden>]

Kevin,

SICP is not the only way to approach the Scheme world.  Here's another 
textbook, just as academic in pedigree and outlook, that has nothing
to do with differential equations (unless you're the kind of person
who tries to find them hiding under every rock):

  http://www.htdp.org/

Not being able to do i/o is pretty frustrating, for sure.  And even
the textbook listed above does nothing to help you with that problem.
That's because its companion book does.  Here it is:

  http://www.htus.org/

You will find that PLT Scheme (the system on which all this code runs) 
offers lots of documentation about embedding, too, but that's not the
only thing it'll help you learn.

Cheers,
Shriram