Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus

Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus (1975)
by Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr.

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AI Memo 349, the first of the Lambda Papers.

This paper gave the original definition and implementation of the Scheme programming language, a Lisp dialect with full lexical closure based on the lambda calculus, and demonstrated how it can be used to reason about the semantics of tail recursive iteration and continuation-passing style.

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