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Subject: Re: Who or What is Scheme?
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From: billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 19:36:43 GMT
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In article <32012@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
: 
: I came across Scheme recently.  Does someone have a quick summary on
: where it fits into the Universe?
: 
From The Language File:

Scheme - A dialect of LISP that is applicative-order and lexically scoped.
Unlike all other LISP dialects, Scheme treats both functions and 
continuations as first-class objects.  "The REvised^3 Report on the 
ALgorithmic Language Scheme", G.L. Steele Jr, SIGPLAN Notices 21(12):37-79 
(Dec 1986).
mailing list: scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu

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