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Article #3710Re: Who or What is Scheme?
From: Richard L. Goerwitz
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 02:51
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 02:51
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jbc@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Jeff Caldwell) writes:
>>I came across Scheme recently. Does someone have a quick summary on
>>where it fits into the Universe?
>
>Scheme is a powerful dialect of Lisp. I believe it was developed at MIT.
Check one:
_ Scheme is primarily an instructional language, with a very pure and
simple syntax, and with precious little in the way of resources that
would make it a viable production language.
_ Scheme is rapidly emerging, in various forms, as a viable alternative
to its bloated cousins (e.g. CL). Although it is not used in many
production systems just yet, it soon will be.
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer
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