3 Explaining Racket

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3 Explaining Racket

Racket is a programming language for making programming languages.
Racket belongs to the Lisp family of programming languages.
Specifically, Racket belongs to a sub-family of LISP called Scheme.
If you are interested in learning any of these implementations, some popular implementations are Racket, Chicken, and Guile.
Scheme also has several sub-families. These sub-families are called standards. People have created implementations—usable programming languages—based on these standards.
Currently, the R4RS, R5RS, R6RS, and the R7RS standards exist.

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1	Introduction
2	Explaining Scribble
3	Explaining Racket
4	Racket is special
5	Mixing Scribble, Racket, and other tools
6	Changing syntax
7	Making languages
8	Making languages Continued
9	Racket in other domains
10	What does Scribble look like?
11	Big and bold
12	Getting ridiculous
13	Lists
14	Section referencing
15	Variables
16	Accessing variables
17	Thoughts on Scribble
18	Acknowledgements