Scheme

Summary

Scheme is a minimalist dialect of Lisp known for its simplicity, elegance, and emphasis on functional programming. It features lexical scoping, first-class procedures, and proper tail recursion, making it popular in education and research.

Paradigms

functional, imperative

Domains

education, artificial intelligence, compiler, scientific computing, scripting

Key Features

first-class functions, closures, tail-call optimization, macros, reflection, meta-programming

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, strong typing, full inference, runtime checking, conservative type coercion, no type annotations

Compilation

interpreted, compiled, interpreted with JIT compilation

Influenced By

Lisp, ALGOL, MDL

Influenced

Clojure, Racket, Joy, Snap!, Hop, Qalb, Rust, Common Lisp, Scala, Lua, Impromptu, Pico, Oaklisp, Extempore, Snap4Arduino, R, JavaScript, Tea

Ratings

File extensions

scm, sch, sld, sls, sps, ss

External Links

• Scheme official site
• Scheme jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/scheme subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories