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Article #3564Re: Who or What is Scheme?
From: Bill Kinnersley
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 19:36
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 19:36
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In article <32012@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: : : I came across Scheme recently. Does someone have a quick summary on : where it fits into the Universe? : From The Language File: Scheme - A dialect of LISP that is applicative-order and lexically scoped. Unlike all other LISP dialects, Scheme treats both functions and continuations as first-class objects. "The REvised^3 Report on the ALgorithmic Language Scheme", G.L. Steele Jr, SIGPLAN Notices 21(12):37-79 (Dec 1986). mailing list: scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu -- --Bill Kinnersley billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu 226 Transfer complete.
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