I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

I have a huge appreciation for the Scheme programming language. I just seem to be unable to get it to stick in my head. This seems like a huge revelation for someone who named their blog after the Scheme textbook, but there it is. This post is the public admission I need to make, to keep me accountable for trying again. And again. One problem is that I’m an inconsistent LISPer. The first software I ever got paid for was an Emacs major mode for the GLE plotting language, which didn’t do much beyond syntax highlighting. But I didn’t really get deeply into Emacs customization or automation, so I still have to look at the manual or my outdated copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions whenever I want to do anything. I’m OK at reading Scheme. During my investigations of AI coding assistants for the project that became Chiron Codex, I created a Smalltalk-like live environment with a module browser for the Racket dialect. Obviously an LLM generated the code, but I felt comfortable following along…