Category:Scheme

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Programming Language
Scheme is a programming language. It may be used to instruct computers to accomplish a variety of tasks which may or may not be domain-specific. You may find a list of its implementations here, and a list of its users on RC here.

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Scheme.

See also: Scheme on the HOPL


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Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. It is one of the two main dialects of Lisp and supports a number of programming paradigms but is best known for its support of functional programming. It was developed by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman in the 1970s. Scheme was introduced to the academic world via a series of papers now referred to as Sussman and Steele's Lambda Papers. There are two standards that define the Scheme language: the official IEEE standard, and a de facto standard called the Revisedn Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, nearly always abbreviated RnRS, where n is the number of the revision. The current standard is R5RS, and R6RS is in development.

Scheme's philosophy is minimalist. Scheme provides as few primitive notions as possible, and, where practical, lets everything else be provided by programming libraries.

Scheme was the first dialect of Lisp to choose static (a.k.a. lexical) over dynamic variable scope. It was also one of the first programming languages to support first-class continuations.

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