The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd edition (R. Kent Dybvig)

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

The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd edition (R. Kent Dybvig)

The Scheme Programming Language, which documents the standard subset of the language. The book offers three chapters of introductory material with numerous examples, eight chapters of reference material, and one chapter of extended examples and additional exercises. All of the examples can be entered directly from the keyboard into an interactive Scheme session.

Author(s): R. Kent Dybvig

NA Pages