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{{language|Scheme}}'''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 R''n''RS, where ''n'' is the number of the revision. The current standard is '''R5RS''', and '''R6RS''' is in development.

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.