Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus

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

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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