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Sussman had studied ALGOL, and some aspects of PLASMA's modeling suggested to him that the use of lexical scope would greatly simplify the creation of actors and closures. Their modeling system went well and they called it Schemer, eventually changing it to Scheme to fit the six-character limit on the ITS file system on their DEC PDP-10. They soon concluded that actors were essentially closures that never return but instead invoke a [[continuation]], and thus they decided that the closure and the actor were, for the purposes of their investigation, essentially identical concepts. They eliminated what they regarded as redundant code and, at that point, discovered that they had written a very small and powerful dialect of
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