Scheme
<programming> (Originally "Schemer", by analogy with
Planner and
Conniver).
A small, uniform
Lisp dialect with clean
semantics, developed initially by
Guy Steele and
Gerald Sussman in 1975.
Scheme uses
applicative order reduction and
lexical scope.
It treats both functions and
continuations as first-class objects.
One of the most used implementations is
DrScheme, others include
Bigloo,
Elk,
Liar,
Orbit, Scheme86 (Indiana U),
SCM, MacScheme (Semantic Microsystems), PC Scheme (TI),
MIT Scheme, and
T.
See also
Kamin's interpreters,
PSD,
PseudoScheme,
Schematik,
Scheme Repository,
STk,
syntax-case,
Tiny Clos,
Paradigms of AI Programming.
There have been a series of revisions of the report defining Scheme, known as
RRS (Revised Report on Scheme),
R2RS (Revised Revised Report ..),
R3RS,
R3.99RS,
R4RS.
Scheme resources (http://www.schemers.org/).
Mailing list:
[email protected].
[IEEE P1178-1990, "IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language", ISBN 1-55937-125-0].
