started, I learned about <a
href="http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/hacks/ichbins.tar.gz" >Darius
Bacon's brilliant seven-page self-hosting "<b>ichbins</b>"
compiler</a> and read it.
It's definitely worth a read.</p>

<p>I decided to call it "Ur-Scheme" because it's not quite a Scheme,
with all the missing parts mentioned above; it's more like something
that could grow into a Scheme.  I was inspired by <a
href="http://urjtag.sourceforge.net/book/_urjtag.html#_the_name_urjtag"
>UrJTAG</a>, but of course the e