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MIT Scheme

MIT Scheme is an implementation of Lisp. The "MIT Scheme Reference Manual" explains its the relationship to a Scheme standard in this way:

Throughout this manual, we will make frequent references to "standard Scheme", which is the language defined by the document `Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme', by William Clinger, Jonathan Rees, et al., or by the IEEE Scheme standard (in fact, several parts of this document are copied from the `Revised Report'). MIT Scheme is an extension of standard Scheme.

Availability

October 2000 -- MIT Scheme 7.3 is available on ieng9 and associated Sun SPARC workstations: APM B402 (UAPE), EBU1 3329, EBU2 313.

Setup

Use the "prep scheme" command to set up the Scheme environment.

% prep scheme
% [scheme-7.3] scheme
Scheme saved on Sunday November 21, 1993 at 9:15:23 PM
  Release 7.3.0 (beta)
  Microcode 11.146
  Runtime 14.166
1 ]=> ^D
End of input stream reached
Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Documentation

A user manual and reference manual are available as Postscript files in /software/nonrdist/scheme-7.3/doc. These files may be viewed using the ghostview utility on X-window workstations.

% ghostview /software/nonrdist/scheme-7.3/doc/user.ps
% ghostview /software/nonrdist/scheme-7.3/doc/refman.ps