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Re:A Scheme Primer by spapas82 on Friday July 08, 2022 @03:53AM (#32024072)
The little schemer book https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer-fourth-edition is my favourite introduction to scheme and to functional programming.

Fair warning: Don't be fooled by its cute images. This is a difficult book. It needs heavy work from you to understand; I've done some analysis on racket in this gh repo for anyboddy interested: https://github.com/spapas/little-schemer

Unfortunately, I was never able to understand the Y combinator chapter :(

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Re:A Scheme Primer by panzerklein on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:09AM (#32024662)
Racket is great for this book. With some work it's also doable in Common Lisp, here's my take: https://github.com/tsumo/solutions/blob/master/little_scheme...
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Re:A Scheme Primer by pmoriarty on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:54AM (#32024571)
I found the book's tones to be insufferably annoying.
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