Scheme, Briefly
Scheme offers a simple model for computation. It avoids the “feature creep” of other programming languages, leaving only a few constructs required for an advanced language. Even the syntax is stripped bare of superfluous characters, leaving only pairs of parentheses to demarcate an expression. Simplicity does not imply, however, that Scheme is any less powerful than more popular languages. On the contrary, because Scheme provides only the essential primitives required of an advanced language, programmers are free to combine these primitives in ever more powerful ways. Scheme is an extremely versatile language suitable for any programming task.
Scheme provides a suite of primitive value types. Boolean, character, and string types ...
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