Scheme: An Uncommon Lisp
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
–Robert Burns (1759–1796)
This chapter presents the Scheme dialect of Lisp and an interpreter for it. While it is not likely that you would use this interpreter for any serious programming, understanding how the interpreter works can give you a better appreciation of how Lisp works, and thus make you a better programmer. A Scheme interpreter is used instead of a Common Lisp one because Scheme is simpler, and also because Scheme is an important language that is worth knowing about.
Scheme is the only dialect of Lisp besides Common Lisp that is currently flourishing. Where Common Lisp tries to standardize all the important features that are in current use by Lisp programmers, ...
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