Scheme (programming language)
Scheme is a programming language. It is one of the two dialects of LISP in widespread use today. The other dialect of LISP widely used is Common lisp. Scheme is often used as a teaching tool; to teach computer science students functional programming.
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| Paradigm(s) | multi-paradigm: functional, procedural, meta |
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| Appeared in | 1975 |
| Designed by | Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman |
| Stable release | R6RS (ratified standard) / 2007 |
| Typing discipline | strong, dynamic |
| Scope | lexical |
| Major implementations | Many. See Category:Scheme implementations |
| Dialects | T |
| Influenced by | Lisp, ALGOL, MDL |
| Influenced | Clojure, Common Lisp, Dylan, EuLisp, Haskell, Hop, JavaScript, Kernel, Lua, R, S, Racket, Ruby |
| Usual filename extensions | .scm, .ss |
 Scheme at Wikibooks | |
