<html><head><metahttp-equiv="content-type"content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>3 Backstory</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="scribble.css"title="default"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="racket.css"title="default"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="manual-style.css"title="default"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="manual-racket.css"title="default"/><scripttype="text/javascript"src="scribble-common.js"></script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">.SIEHidden { overflow: hidden; }</style><![endif]--></head><bodyid="scribble-racket-lang-org"><divclass="tocset"><divclass="tocview"><divclass="tocviewlist tocviewlisttopspace"><divclass="tocviewtitle"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdstyle="width: 1em;"><ahref="javascript:void(0);"title="Expand/Collapse"class="tocviewtoggle"onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_0");">▼</a></td><td></td><td><ahref="index.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Pollen:<spanclass="mywbr"> </span> the book is a program</a></td></tr></table></div><divclass="tocviewsublisttop"style="display: block;"id="tocview_0"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdalign="right">1 </td><td><ahref="Installation.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Installation</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">2 </td><td><ahref="quick-tour.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Quick tour</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">3 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html"class="tocviewselflink"data-pltdoc="x">Backstory</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">4 </td><td><ahref="big-picture.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">The big picture</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">5 </td><td><ahref="First_tutorial.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">First tutorial</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">6 </td><td><ahref="raco-pollen.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Using <spanclass="stt">raco pollen</span></a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">7 </td><td><ahref="File_formats.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">File formats</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">8 </td><td><ahref="reader.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">◊ command overview</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">9 </td><td><ahref="Module_reference.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Module reference</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">10 </td><td><ahref="Acknowledgments.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Acknowledgments</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">11 </td><td><ahref="License___source_code.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">License & source code</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right"></td><td><ahref="doc-index.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Index</a></td></tr></table></div></div><divclass="tocviewlist"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdstyle="width: 1em;"><ahref="javascript:void(0);"title="Expand/Collapse"class="tocviewtoggle"onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_1");">►</a></td><td>3 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html"class="tocviewselflink"data-pltdoc="x">Backstory</a></td></tr></table><divclass="tocviewsublistbottom"style="display: none;"id="tocview_1"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdalign="right">3.1 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html#%28part._.Web_development_and_its_discontents%29"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Web development and its discontents</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">3.2 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html#%28part._.The_better_idea__a_programming_model%29"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">The better idea:<spanclass="mywbr"> </span> a programming model</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">3.3 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html#%28part.__.Now_you_have_two_problems_%29"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">“Now you have two problems”</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">3.4 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html#%28part._.Rethinking_the_solution_for_digital_books%29"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Rethinking the soluti
