Re: What's so cool about Scheme?

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <address@hidden>]

Billy wrote:

> I took scheme in college, and promptly forgot it after the class was
> over since I was much more interested in C++ at the time.  I've come
> back to scheme now, and I think I've come to really like the elegance
> of the language.  The problem I'm having is, unlike many other
> languages I learned, I'm having problems finding and learning the
> idioms beyond the basic ones. I'm having a problem finding examples to
> advance to the "next level".

You might want to look at

  http://www.htus.org/
  How to Use Scheme

which discusses some more practical aspects of Scheme that textbooks
don't normally cover.  The book is still in a very preliminary form,
but we will be adding to it over time.

Shriram