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-Scheme is a [LISP] dialect. More information can be found at [http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/] and by reading [ProgrammingLanguages]
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+Scheme is a [LISP] dialect. More information can be found at [http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/] and by reading the FunctionalProgrammingLanguage page
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Some intertesting facts about Scheme can be found in the paper [The Evolution of Lisp|http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/steele93evolution.html]. For instance, Scheme was originally named "Schemer", but because of the 6-character limitation of file names in the operating system ITS that was being used, (this __was__ 1975 after all) it was truncated to Scheme and "the name stuck." Scheme was originally a toy implementation of ideas published earlier by someone called Carl Hewitt; it was written as "an attempt by Gerald Jay Sussman and Steele during Autumn 1975 to explicate for themselves some aspects of Carl Hewitt's theory of ''actors'' as a model of computation."
