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.

Scheme

Paradigm	multi-paradigm: functional, procedural, meta
Designed by	Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman
First appeared	1975
Stable release	R6RS (ratified standard) / 2007
Typing discipline	strong, dynamic
Scope	lexical
Filename extensions	.scm, .ss
Website	www.scheme.org
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
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