Re: Who or What is Scheme?

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From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 07:15

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>>>>> On 17 Apr 91 07:10:58 GMT, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said:
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Ajay> I came across Scheme recently.  Does someone have a quick summary on
Ajay> where it fits into the Universe?

Scheme is a programming language (ok, the programming language for some of
you :-) ) which  is statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of
Lisp programming language. It is invented by by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and
Gerald Jay Sussman. It can support imperative, functional and message passing
(object oriented) programming paradigms.

You can learn more about Scheme from ``Revised^3.99 Report on Algorithmic
Language Scheme'', ed. by William Clinger and Jonathan Rees, Department of
Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, CIS-TR-90-02.

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland

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