Introduction

The Scheme programming language, a member of the Lisp family, is one of the simplest and yet most flexible and powerful languages available today. This tutorial provides is a quick synopsis of the language, enough to familiarize experienced programmers with the language and with the basic concepts of applicative programming. For a more detailed explanation of the language, see Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, the most widely used standard for the Scheme language today.

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