The scheme environment

Abstract

I can think of no better way to introduce this department than to quote the first two paragraphs of the introduction to the new Scheme standard, the Revisea3 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme [4], which I will refer to as R3RS. The first paragraph conveys a sense of the Scheme philosophy, while the second paragraph lists technical features that distinguish Scheme from other programming languages. One of my goals for future articles will be to explain and illustrate those features, as well as some other features that were considered too experimental to be included in R3RS.