An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation Mirror

Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme

The report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. This PDF covers the following topics related to Scheme : Introduction, Overview of Scheme, Requirement levels, Numbers, Lexical syntax and datum syntax, Semantic concepts, Entry format, Libraries, Top-level programs, Primitive syntax, Expansion process, Base library.

Author(s): Robert Bruce Findler, Jacob Matthews

90 Pages

Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme

This book gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. It provides fundamental ideas of the language and describe the notational conventions used for describing the language and for writing programs in the language.

Author(s): Richard Kelsey, William Clinger and Jonathan Rees

NA Pages