For me, the idea of scheme is the idea of a few well-chosen primitives that compose into higher abstractions. Guile does this really well, in my opinion. You ca

For me, the idea of scheme is the idea of a few well-chosen primitives that compose into higher abstractions. Guile does this really well, in my opinion. You can get a decent superficial overview of the implementation in a week, and the IRC channel are really helpful with the parts that are not standard scheme.