Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Who or What is Scheme? Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 07:15:16 GMT References: <32012@usc> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu's message of 17 Apr 91 07:10:58 GMT >>>>> On 17 Apr 91 07:10:58 GMT, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said: Ajay> Nntp-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu Ajay> Originator: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu Ajay> I came across Scheme recently. Does someone have a quick summary on Ajay> where it fits into the Universe? Scheme is a programming language (ok, the programming language for some of you :-) ) which is statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp programming language. It is invented by by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It can support imperative, functional and message passing (object oriented) programming paradigms. You can learn more about Scheme from ``Revised^3.99 Report on Algorithmic Language Scheme'', ed. by William Clinger and Jonathan Rees, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, CIS-TR-90-02. -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland