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Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix


From: Blake Shaw
Subject: Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:23:36 +0700

Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com> writes:

> Everything is capable of improvement but the guile manual is a manual
> and not I think primarily intended as a language tutorial (although
> Chapter 3 of the manual does have a very cursory introduction to the
> scheme language).  If you are looking for a tutorial, I suggest reading
> https://www.scheme.com/tspl4/ .  It covers the R6RS flavour, but at the
> tutorial level I don't think the various current standard flavours
> (R5RS, R6RS and R7RS) matter too much.
>
> I would be reluctant to see the manual turned into a tutorial if that
> were to mean abridging any of its current completeness.
>

For sure, but I didn't say anything about the manual here or anything
about a tutorial. 

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