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• Scheme - Scheme Language Home
• Scheme (Programming Language) - Scheme Wikipedia article

Standards

• SCHEME: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus -- The Scheme paper (R0RS)

• Revised Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R1RS

• Revised^2 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R2RS

• Revised^3 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R3RS

• IEEE/ANSI Scheme Standard

• Revised^4 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R4RS

• Revised^5 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R5RS

• Extended Revised^5 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- ERR5RS (See also ERR5RS SRFIs)

• Revised^6 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R6RS

• Revised^7 Report on (the Algorithmic Language) Scheme -- R7RS (Small)

• Scheme Requests for Implementation -- SRFI

  • SRFI-0 - Feature-based conditional expansion construct
  • SRFI-1 - List Library
  • Homogeneous Vectors
    • SRFI-4 - Homogeneous numeric vector datatypes
    • SRFI-160 - Homogeneous numeric vector libraries
  • SRFI-9 - Defining Record Types
  • SRFI-16 - Syntax for procedures of variable arity
  • SRFI-30 - Nested Multi-line comments
  • SRFI-39 - Parameter objects
  • Vectors
    • SRFI-43 - Vector Library
    • SRFI-133 - Vector Library (R7RS Compatible)
  • SRFI-144 - Flonums
  • SRFI-212 - Aliases
  • SRFI-233 - INI files

Implementations

• Armpit - R5RS, R7RS - Assembly (ARM)
• BDC Scheme - R5RS - Java
• Better Scheme - R5RS - Java
• Bigloo - R5RS
• Bit Scheme - R4RS
• BiwaScheme - R6RS, R7RS
• BusScheme - R5RS
• Calysto Scheme - ?
• Chez Scheme - IEEE, R5RS, R6RS
• Chibi Scheme - R7RS
• Chicken Scheme - R5RS, R7RS - C
• CPSCM - R5RS
• Cyclone - R7RS
• dfsch - R5RS
• Dream Scheme - R4RS
• Elk - R4RS
• esh - Special
• Euscheme - ?
• Femtolisp - Special
• Foment - R7RS
• fools - R3RS?
• fscheme - R4RS, R5RS
• Galapagos - ?
• Gambit - R4RS, R5RS
• Gauche - R7RS
• Gerbil - R5RS, ?
• Gleam - R5RS - Java
• GoLisp -
• Guile R5RS, R6RS
• Heist - R5RS
• Hobbit - R4RS
• HotScheme -
• HScheme - R5RS
• Husk Scheme - R5RS, R7RS
• Inlab - R4RS
• Ikarus - R6RS
• IronScheme - R6RS
• Jaja - R4RS - Java
• jakld - ?
• JScheme - R4RS
• Kali Scheme - R4RS
• Kawa - R7RS
• Ksi - R5RS, R6RS
• KSM-Scheme - R5RS
• Larceny - IEEE, R5RS, R6RS, R7RS
• libscheme - R4RS
• llava - R5RS
• LIPS - R5RS, R7RS
• LispMe - R4RS
• Luna Scheme - R5RS
• Loko Scheme - R6RS, R7RS
• Microscheme - Special
• Minischeme - R4RS
• Minor Scheme - R4RS
• MIT/GNU Scheme - R7RS
• Mongoose - R5RS
• Mosh - R6RS
• MScheme - R5RS
• NexJ Scheme - R6RS
• Oaklisp - ?
• Ocs - R5RS
• OpenScheme - R4RS, R5RS
• OScheme - R4RS
• Otus Lisp - R7RS
• Owl Lisp - R7RS
• PC Scheme - R3RS
• PHPScheme - Special
• picrin - R7RS
• Pixie Scheme - R5RS
• PS3I - R4RS - Java
• PScheme - R5RS, R6RS
• Pseudoscheme - R4RS
• Psyche - R5RS
• purescheme - R4RS
• pyscheme
• QScheme - R5RS
• Racket - R6RS, Special (formerly: PLTScheme, DrScheme, MzScheme)
• Rhizome/pi - R5RS
• RScheme - R4RS
• s7 - R5RS, R7RS
• Sagittarius - R6RS, R7RS
• Scheje - ?
• Scheme 9 From Empty Space - R4RS
• Scheme 48 - R5RS
• Scheme84 - ?
• Scheme88 - ?
• Schemy - Special - C#
• Schemik - Special
• Schemix - R5RS
• Schism - R6RS
• Schlep - Special
• schluessel - R5RS - Java
• Schoca - R5RS
• SCM - R5RS
• sigscheme - R5RS
• Shoe - R5RS
• Similix - R3RS, R4RS, IEEE
• SILK - R4RS
• SIOD - Special
• SISC - R5RS
• Sizzle - R5RS
• Skij - R4RS
• softscheme - R4RS
• Spark Scheme
• Stalin - R4RS
• Stk - R4RS
• STklos - R5RS, R7RS
• SXM - IEEE, R5RS
• Tachy - ?
• Tiny Lisp - ?
• TinyScheme - R5RS
• tr7 - R7RS
• UCB Scheme - R4RS
• ULisp - R4RS
• UMB Scheme - R4RS, IEEE
• Unlikely Scheme - R5RS
• Unsytax - R7RS
• Vicare - R6RS
• VSCM - ?
• vxscheme - R4RS
• WinSCM - R4RS
• Wraith Scheme - R5RS
• XLISP - ?
• xscheme - R3RS
• Ypsilon - R6RS

Comparisons

• Scheme Survey
• Scheme Implementations
• Scheme Implementation Choices
• Scheme Cross Reference

Function Index

• Bigloo
• Chez
• Gambit
• Gauche
• Guile
• MIT Scheme

CHICKEN Scheme

• Wikipedia entry

• Behind the Scenes with CHICKEN Scheme (Part 1)

• Behind the Scenes with CHICKEN Scheme and SPOCK (Part 2)

• Learn Scheme by Example: Tk GUI with Chicken Scheme

• Compiling Chicken Scheme scripts - Statistical and instrumentation profiling

• Docstrings in my Chicken?

• Meet the CHICKEN

• Cautionary tales from a programmer

• The pomodoro technique done the chicken way

• Marco's Website | Scheme language projects

• Setting up a basic Scheme programming Environment

• CHICKEN Scheme Tutorials

• CHICKEN Scheme Included Modules

• I played with CHICKEN Scheme, Docker and Alpine Linux

Libraries

• slib
• SCMutils
• QobiScheme
• scheme-power-tools
• thunderchez

Package Managers

• Akku - Package management made easy (R6RS, R7RS)
• Snow - Scheme Now (R7RS)
• Common-Scheme - a portable module system and collection of libraries that works with a number of Scheme implementations

Various

• Scsh - Scheme Shell
• scwm - Scheme Constraints Window Manager
• Menus for Scheme
• S-Expressions - S-Expressions as serialization format

Scripting

• GIMP
  • Basic Scheme
  • Basic Scheme 2
• Lilypond
  • Scheme tutorial

Benchmarks

• Scheme Benchmarks
• vs Benchmark
• R7RS Benchmarks
• Larceny Benchmarks
• Tak
  • J. McCarthy: "An Interesting Lisp Function", LISP Bulletin #3, 1979.
  • "Testing the Tak", Acorn User 52, 1986.
  • Inlab Benchmark

Tutorials

• Learn X in Y minutes. Where X=CHICKEN
• Scheme Programming WikiBook
• Learn Scheme For Max
• Yet Another Scheme Tutorial
• Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
• Learn Scheme in 15 minutes
• Scheme Basics
• Scheme Tutorial
• An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation
• Scheme for Lispers
• How to Use Scheme
• Scheme.rs
• A Scheme Crash Course
• A Scheme Primer
• Scheme at a Glance

Interpreter / Compiler / Transpiler

• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours

Exercises

• Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems
• Exercism Scheme Track

Books

• G. Bitsch: "Wie man LISP programmiert"; Vogel, 1989.
• G. Springer, D.P. Friedman: "Scheme and the Art of Programming"; MIT Press, 1989.
• M. Eisenberg: "Programming in SCHEME"; MIT Press, 1990.
• Texas Instruments: "PC Scheme"; MIT Press, 1990.
• D.P. Friedman, M. Felleisen: The Little Schemer; MIT Press, 1996.
• D.P. Friedman, M. Felleisen: The Seasoned Schemer; MIT Press, 1996.
• H. Abelson, G.J. Sussman, J. Sussman: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; MIT Press, 1996.
• M. Watson: Programming in SCHEME; Springer, 1996.
• I. Ferguson, E. Martin, B. Kaufman: "The Schemer's Guide"; Schemer's Inc., 1997.
• R.G. Hull: "PC Scheme Minimanual"; McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1997.
• O. Grillmeyer: Exploring Computer Science with Scheme; Springer, 1998.
• J. Pearce: Programming and Meta-Programming in Scheme; Springer, 1998.
• B. Harvey, M. Wright: Simply Scheme; MIT Press, 1999.
• R.K. Dybvig: The Scheme Programming Language; MIT Press, 2009.
• N.M. Holm: Sketchy Scheme; Lulu Press, 2011.
• M. Felleisen, R.B. Findler, M. Flatt, S. Krishnamurthi: How to Design Programs; MIT Press, 2014.
• C. Hanson, G.J. Sussman: Software Design for Flexibility; MIT Press, 2021.

Journal Articles

• K.H. Sinclair, D.A. Moon: The philosophy of Lisp; Communications of the ACM 34(9) Special issue on LISP: 40--47, 1991.
• J. Franco, D.P. Friedman, O. Danvy: The Scheme Programming Language; A Comparative Study of Parallel Programming Languages: 297--335, 1992.
• TBC

Magazine Articles

• W.G. Wong: PC Scheme: A Lexical LISP; Byte Magazine, 3: 223--226, 1987,
• H. Abelson, G.J. Sussman: Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design, Byte Magazine, 2: 207--218, 1988.
• W. Clinger: Semantics of Scheme; Byte Magazine, 2: 221--227, 1988.
• D.S. Touretzky: How Lisp Has Changed; Byte Magazine, 2: 229--234, 1988.
• A. Berlin: Compiling Scientific Code Using Partial Evaluations; IEEE Computer, 12: 25--36, 1990.
• M. Branscombe: Learning to Lisp, New Computer Express 123: 53, 1991.
• D. Appleby: Lisp; Byte Magazine, 11: 165--168, 1991.
• E. Gat: Lisp as an Alternative to Java; ACM Intelligence: 21--24, 2000.
• R. Sanders: Languages; Linux Journal, 1995. (aka Introducing Scheme)

Blog Articles

• F. Montanari: Scheme for Scientific Computing
• It's time to learn Scheme
• The evolution of a Scheme programmer
• Parsing JSON with Scheme
• Scheme Language is Good for Product
• M. Simionato: The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland
• In the SCHEME of things
• Lisp Problems
• Computer Languages A to Z: Guile
• Scheme-ing
• P. Norvig: (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) (Lis.py Part 1)
• P. Norvig: (An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) (Lis.py Part 2)

Blogs

• More Magic
• Erkin

Podcasts

• Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen
• Functional Geekery Episode 95 – Dan Friedman

Conferences

• Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop
• European Lisp Symposium

Talks & Presentations

• F. Winkelmann: Chicken - FOSDEM 2011
• F. Winkelmann: Scheme Implementation Techniques - FROSCON 2013
• A. Balaam: Scheme Lisp: Feel the Cool - ACCU2018
• F. Montanari: Scheme for scientific computing - Scheme 2020
• P. Schwarz: The Functional Programming Triad of Map, Filter and Fold

Stackexchange

• What's the proper scheme file extension?

Code Snippets

• F#'s pipe operator for racket - Should work for CHICKEN Scheme too

Miscellaneous

• schemers.org
• Scheme Conservatory
• Community Scheme Wiki
• Bibliography of Scheme-related Research
• Scheme family
• Scheme Resources
• Build Your Own Lisp
• Lisp Family: Olympus of Programming or Underground
• scheme Forum
• Scheme Report
• an improper list of Scheme resources
• Community-Scheme-Wiki
• The Scheme Programming Language
• Scheme Cross Reference
• Is it possible to create a circular data structure in Scheme without mutation?