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Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
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<div class=chapterheading> </div><br>
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<a href="r6rs-Z-H-2.html#node_toc_node_chap_Temp_1">Summary</a></h1>
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The report gives a defining description of the programming language
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Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive
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dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis
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Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an
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exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to
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form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including
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functional, imperative, and message passing styles, find convenient
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expression in Scheme.</p>
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This report is accompanied by a report describing standard
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libraries [<a href="r6rs-Z-H-21.html#node_bib_24">24</a>]; references to this document are
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identified by designations such as “library section” or “library
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chapter”. It is also accompanied by a report containing
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non-normative appendices [<a href="r6rs-Z-H-21.html#node_bib_22">22</a>]. A fourth report gives
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some historical background and rationales for many aspects of the
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language and its libraries [<a href="r6rs-Z-H-21.html#node_bib_23">23</a>].</p>
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The individuals listed above are not the sole authors of the text of
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the report. Over the years, the following individuals were involved
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in discussions contributing to the design of the Scheme language, and
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were listed as authors of prior reports:</p>
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Hal Abelson, Norman Adams, David Bartley, Gary Brooks, William
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Clinger, R. Kent Dybvig, Daniel Friedman, Robert Halstead, Chris
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Hanson, Christopher Haynes, Eugene Kohlbecker, Don Oxley, Kent Pitman,
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Jonathan Rees, Guillermo Rozas, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gerald Jay Sussman, and
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Mitchell Wand.</p>
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In order to highlight recent contributions, they are not listed as
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authors of this version of the report. However, their contribution
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and service is gratefully acknowledged.</p>
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We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme community, and so
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we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part without fee. In
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particular, we encourage implementors of Scheme to use this report as
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