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<h2 class="chapter" id="Introduction-1"><span>1 Introduction<a class="copiable-link" href="#Introduction-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<p>Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. Scheme
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(<a class="url" href="http://schemers.org/">http://schemers.org/</a>) is an elegant and conceptually simple
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dialect of Lisp, originated by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman, and since
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<p>The next few sections explain what we mean by these points. The sections after
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<li><a href="Guile-and-Scheme.html" accesskey="1">Guile and Scheme</a></li>
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