Programming Language
Scheme Appeared 1975
Minimalistic and flexible dialect of the Lisp programming language, prioritizing functional programming and metaprogramming. Developed in the 1970s by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman at MIT, it pioneered concepts like lexical scoping and first-class continuations.
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Influence graph Influence graph for Scheme: 1 influencing languages, 1 family links Lisp influenced Scheme Scheme is a dialect of Lisp Lisp Scheme Solid arrows: influence, oldest at the top. Dashed: compiles to / is a dialect of / implements. Descendants graph Descendants graph for Scheme: 21 languages it influenced, 48 influence links Scheme influenced Ciao Common Lisp influenced Clojure Haskell influenced Clojure Racket influenced Clojure Ruby influenced Clojure Scheme influenced Clojure Scheme influenced Common Lisp Scheme influenced Extempore Lua influenced Fennel Scheme influenced Fennel Scheme influenced Gambit Scheme influenced Haskell Scheme influenced Janet Lua influenced JavaScript MoonScript influenced JavaScript Python influenced JavaScript Scheme influenced JavaScript Common Lisp influenced Julia Lua influenced Julia MoonScript influenced Julia Python influenced Julia R influenced Julia Ruby influenced Julia Scheme influenced Julia Scheme influenced K Scheme influenced Lua Lua influenced MoonScript Scheme influenced MoonScript Haskell influenced Python Scheme influenced Python Common Lisp influenced R Scheme influenced R Scheme influenced Racket Lua influenced Ruby MoonScript influenced Ruby Python influenced Ruby Scheme influenced Ruby Haskell influenced Rust JavaScript influenced Rust Racket influenced Rust Ruby influenced Rust Scheme influenced Rust Common Lisp influenced Scala Haskell influenced Scala Scheme influenced Scala Python influenced Scopes Scheme influenced Scopes Scheme influenced Shen Scheme Lua Haskell MoonScript Common Lisp Python JavaScript Ruby R Racket Ciao Extempore Fennel Clojure Julia Rust Gambit Janet Scala K Scopes Shen Solid arrows: influence, oldest at the top. Showing the 21 languages Scheme directly influenced. 