University
of Washington • CSE583 • D. Notkin © 2000
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Scheme: a Lisp descendant
lA
statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming
language developed by
Steele and Sussman in the mid 1970s
–Embodies
an executable version of the lamda calculus
lIntended
to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics with few different ways to form expressions