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Scheme Alive

Scheme
KindProgramming language
Appeared1975
StatusAlive
CreatorGuy Steele & Gerald Sussman / MIT
FamilyLisp
Sourcescheme.org ↗

The lambda-papers language — a deliberately tiny Lisp that taught the world continuations, hygienic macros, and lexical scope done right.

Descended from LISP
Created by Gerald Jay Sussman Guy L. Steele Jr.
Descendants Racket
Influenced JavaScript Clojure
Predecessors LISP
Described in Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative

Steele and Sussman's Scheme (1975) — born of modeling actors in Lisp — kept only lambda: lexical scoping, first-class continuations, tail-call optimization, and deliberately minimal core.\n\nThe Lambda Papers documented it; R7RS is the current standard. Scheme remains the canonical 'small is powerful' language — proof a language can fit in a lecture.

Sources

  1. scheme.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)