@abcdw To my mind, cookbook documents promote “copy & paste disease”: programmers see a snippet or idiom and use it without thinking and without knowing the whole story. And style guides are simply officially-blessed—and therefore more dangerous—cookbooks.

A more useful project might be a series of (meta)libraries that collects related libraries into one easy-to-install, well-documented package. This way, someone who wants to write a small network-oriented GUI program in #Guile could simply grab (easy-networking) and (gui kde), say, and skip digging through the huge pile of half-documented alternatives.

This hints at the fundamental problem: there are not enough polished, tested, and well-documented #Scheme libraries. A cookbook of simple examples of using LIBRARY is little help if LIBRARY is otherwise undocumented, out of date, or simply broken. It’s the basic problem that needs fixing. But this, I fear, is a much bigger project.