MIT/GNU Scheme

MIT/GNU Scheme is a programming language, a dialect and implementation of the language Scheme, which is a dialect of Lisp. It can produce native binary files for the x86 processor architecture. It supports the R7RS-small standard. It is free and open-source software released under v2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It was first released by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, as free software even before the Free Software Foundation, GNU, and the GPL existed. It is now part of the GNU Project. Wikipedia

Developed by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Operating systems: Q3251801 • Microsoft Windows • Unix-like operating system • BSD • macOS
Implemented in: Scheme
Aliases: mit-scheme, MIT Scheme

Wikidata: Q768970

Language types: implementation of a programming language

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