Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days

Scheme and Functional Programming

This PDF covers the following topics related to Scheme : The HOP Development Kit, A Stepper for Scheme Macros, An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction, SHard: a Scheme to Hardware Compiler, Automatic construction of parse trees for lexemes, Rapid Case Dispatch in Scheme, Experiences with Scheme in an Electro-Optics Laboratory, Gradual Typing for Functional Languages, Sage: Hybrid Checking for Flexible Specifications, From Variadic Functions to Variadic Relations: A miniKanren Perspective, A Self-Hosting Evaluator using HOAS, Concurrency Oriented Programming in Termite Scheme, Interaction-Safe State for the Web, Scheme for Client-Side Scripting in Mobile Web Browsing, or AJAX-Like Behavior Without Javascript, Component Deployment with PLaneT: You Want it Where.

Author(s): Robby Findler, University of Chicago

165 Pages

Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme

The report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. This PDF covers the following topics related to Scheme : Introduction, Overview of Scheme, Requirement levels, Numbers, Lexical syntax and datum syntax, Semantic concepts, Entry format, Libraries, Top-level programs, Primitive syntax, Expansion process, Base library.

Author(s): Robert Bruce Findler, Jacob Matthews

90 Pages