The Scheme Programming Language

Scheme was introduced in 1975 by Gerald J. Sussman and Guy L. Steele Jr. [28,29], and was the first dialect of Lisp to f

imgimg Chapter 1. Introduction Scheme is a general-purpose computer programming language. It is a high-level language,

imgimg Chapter 2. Getting Started This chapter is an introduction to Scheme for programmers who are new to the languag

imgimg Chapter 3. Going Further The preceding chapter prepared you to write Scheme programs using a small set of the m

imgimg Chapter 4. Procedures and Variable Bindings Procedures and variable bindings are the fundamental building block

imgimg Chapter 5. Control Operations This chapter introduces the syntactic forms and procedures that serve as control

imgimg Chapter 6. Operations on Objects This chapter describes the operations on objects, including lists, numbers, ch

imgimg Chapter 7. Input and Output All input and output operations are performed through ports. A port is a pointer in

imgimg Chapter 8. Syntactic Extension Syntactic extensions, or macros, are used to simplify and regularize repeated pa

imgimg Chapter 9. Records This chapter describes the means by which the programmer may define new data types, or recor

imgimg Chapter 10. Libraries and Top-Level Programs Libraries and top-level programs are the basic units of portable c

imgimg Chapter 11. Exceptions and Conditions Exceptions and conditions provide the means for system and user code to s

imgimg Chapter 12. Extended Examples This chapter presents a series of programs that perform more complicated tasks th

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The formal grammars and accompanying text appearing here describe the written syntax of Scheme data values, or datums. T

The table that follows summarizes the Scheme syntactic forms and procedures described in Chapters 4 through 11. It shows

The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Edition Written by R. Kent Dybvig Illustrations by Jean-Pierre Hébert From the back

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