Scheme Language Reference
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Mit/Gnu Scheme Reference Manual
Author: Chris Hanson
language: en
Publisher: Samurai Media Limited
Release Date: 2015-11-11
MIT/GNU Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large runtime library. MIT/GNU Scheme is best suited to programming large applications with a rapid development cycle.
Scheme Language Reference
"Scheme Language Reference" The "Scheme Language Reference" serves as a meticulous and comprehensive exploration of the Scheme programming language, guiding readers through its historical foundations, elegant design principles, and influential place in the broader programming landscape. With clarity and precision, it details Scheme’s evolution from Lisp, analyzes its minimalistic ethos, and explains its unique core features relative to other functional and imperative languages. Readers will find authoritative treatments of Scheme’s syntax, semantics, and the impact of evolving standards such as R5RS, R6RS, and R7RS, providing a robust conceptual framework for both newcomers and practitioners. Building on these foundations, the reference delves deeply into Scheme’s core data types and structures, including its sophisticated numeric tower, Unicode-enabled strings, and extensible record types. The reader is guided through advanced topics such as lexical scoping, closures, continuations, and the management of mutable and immutable state. The chapters offer clear explanations of essential constructs—from procedures and tail recursion to control structures, exception handling, and the rich macro facilities that empower metaprogramming and syntax extension, facilitating expressive and powerful abstractions. Beyond the language core, the book addresses practical concerns of modular programming, system interaction, and advanced implementation topics such as foreign function interfaces, embedding, performance tuning, concurrency, and sandboxed execution. Detailed attention is given to interoperability through module systems, comprehensive I/O facilities, safe system integration, and the challenges of portability and cross-implementation compliance. Throughout, best practices and insightful comparisons ensure that "Scheme Language Reference" is the definitive, modern technical guide for those wishing to master Scheme, whether for educational, research, or professional software development.
Simply Scheme
Showing off scheme - Functions - Expressions - Defining your own procedures - Words and sentences - True and false - Variables - Higher-order functions - Lambda - Introduction to recursion - The leap of faith - How recursion works - Common patterns in recursive procedures - Advanced recursion - Example : the functions program - Files - Vectors - Example : a spreadsheet program - Implementing the spreadsheet program - What's next?