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 It is now 2016 and I too have returned to teach at Indiana University.
 It is now 2016 and I too have returned to teach at Indiana University.
 In my absence the compiler course had switched from the front-to-back
 In my absence the compiler course had switched from the front-to-back
 organization to a back-to-front organization. Seeing how well the
 organization to a back-to-front organization. Seeing how well the
-incremental approach worked at Colorado, I found this rather
-unsatisfactory and have proceeded to reorganize the course, porting
-and adapting the structure of the Colorado course back into the land
-of Scheme. Of course, in the meantime Scheme has been superseded by
-Racket (at least in Indiana), so the course is now about implementing,
-in Racket~\citep{plt-tr}, a subset of Racket.
+incremental approach worked at Colorado, I found this unsatisfactory
+and have reorganized the course, porting and adapting the structure of
+the Colorado course back into the land of Scheme. In the meantime
+Scheme has been superseded by Racket (at least in Indiana), so the
+course is now about compiling a subset of Racket to the x86 assembly
+language and the compiler is implemented in Racket~\citep{plt-tr}.
 
 
 This is the textbook for the incremental version of the compiler
 This is the textbook for the incremental version of the compiler
 course at Indiana University (Spring 2016) and it is the first
 course at Indiana University (Spring 2016) and it is the first