From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Nice quote from the cover of R2RS Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:24 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292779271 28328 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2010 17:21:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:21:11 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 19 18:21:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUMwI-0005MA-Ea for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:21:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUMtV-0000lv-Hq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47294 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUMtD-0000kz-U8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUMtC-0006hV-6a for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([216.204.32.208]:56091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUMtC-0006h2-2g for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 209-6-39-128.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.39.128] helo=freedomincluded) by world.peace.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUMt5-00069p-Mj; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUMsu-0002Pu-Lt; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:17:24 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11259 Archived-At: At a friend's house I found a printed copy of R2RS, aka MIT AI Memo 848, dated August 1985. I include the cover text below. Readers of Tolkien will appreciate the quote. I wonder if it might be included in the Guile manual for fun. Mark AI Memo 848 The Revised Revised Report on Scheme or An UnCommon Lisp Data and procedures and the values they amass, Higher-order functions to combine and mix and match, Objects with their local state, the messages they pass, A property, a package, the control point for a catch-- In the Lambda Order they are all first-class. One Thing to name them all, One Thing to define them, One Thing to place them in environments and bind them, In the Lambda order they are all first-class. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory