Scheme is a dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages. Scheme was created during the 1970s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and released by its developers, Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, via a series of memos now known as the Lambda Papers. It was the first dialect of Lisp to choose lexical scope and the first to require implementations to perform tail-call optimization, giving stronger support for functional programming and associated techniques such as recursive algorithms. It was also one of the first programming languages to support first-class continuations. It had a significant influence on the effort that led to the development of Common Lisp. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1975
Designed by: Gerald Jay Sussman • Guy L. Steele
Aliases: Scheme (programming language)
File extensions: scm, ss

Wikidata: Q187560

Influenced: Common Lisp • Extempore • Hop • Impromptu • JavaScript • Joy • Julia • Lua • Oaklisp • Pico • Qalb • R • Rust • Scala • Snap! • Snap4Arduino • Tea

Influenced by: ALGOL • Lisp • MDL (programming language)

Programming paradigms: functional programming • imperative programming • metaprogramming • procedural programming

Language types: functional programming language • metaprogramming language • multi-paradigm programming language • off-side rule language • procedural programming language

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