Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme

@article{Abelson1998Revised5RO,
  title={Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme},
  author={Harold Abelson and R. Kent Dybvig and Christopher T. Haynes and Guillermo Juan Rozas and IV N.I.Adams and Daniel P. Friedman and Eugene E. Kohlbecker and Guy L. Steele and David H. Bartley and Robert H. Halstead and Don Oxley and Gerald J. Sussman and Gary Brooks and Chris Hanson and Kent M. Pitman and Mitchell Wand},
  journal={Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation},
  year={1998},
  volume={11},
  pages={7-105}
}
The report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme.The… 
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