Scheme: the new generation

ABSTRACT

Scheme has served the community for twenty years. It has demonstrated that a useful language can be constructed which has a very small number of rules for forming expressions. Scheme's set of rules were carefully chosen so as to produce a language flexible enough to support most major programming paradigms in use today, yet allow efficient implementations.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: SCHEME

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Theory