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Q187560
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dialect of the Lisp programming language
Q187560 is a version of the Lisp programming language that has its own specific features and syntax. It matters to programmers and computer scientists because different Lisp dialects serve different purposes and communities within the broader Lisp ecosystem.
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Key facts
- Paradigms
- Multi-paradigm : functional , imperative , meta
- Family
- Lisp
- Designed by
- Guy L. Steele , Gerald Jay Sussman
- First appeared
- 1975 ; 51 years ago ( 1975 )
- Stable release
- R7RS / 2013 ; 13 years ago ( 2013 )
- Typing discipline
- Dynamic , latent , strong
- Scope
- Lexical
- Filename extensions
- .scm, .ss
- Website
- www .scheme .org
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.scheme.org
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- official demo URL
- try.scheme.org
- Commons category
- Scheme (programming language)
- software version identifier
- R7RS-small
- inception
- 1975-01-01
- file extension
- ss
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Scheme is a dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages. Scheme was created during the 1970s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) and released by its developers, Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, via a series of memos now known as the Lambda Papers. It was the first dialect of Lisp to choose lexical scope and the first to require implementations to perform tail-call optimization, giving stronger support for functional programming and associated techniques such as recursive algorithms. It was also one of the first programming languages to support first-class continuations. It had a significant influence on the effort that led to the development of Common Lisp.
The Scheme language is standardized in the official Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard and a de facto standard called the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (RnRS). A widely implemented standard is R5RS (1998). The most recently ratified standard of Scheme is "R7RS-small" (2013). The more expansive and modular R6RS was ratified in 2007. Both trace their descent from R5RS; the timeline below reflects the chronological order of ratification.