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'''Scheme''' is a [[programming language dialect|dialect]] of the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] family of [[programming language]]s. Scheme was created during the 1970s at the [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] (MIT AI LabCSAIL) and released by its developers, [[Guy L. Steele]] and [[Gerald Jay Sussman]], via a series of memos now known as the [[Lambda Papers]]. It was the first dialect of Lisp to choose [[Scope (computer science)#Lexical scoping and dynamic scoping|lexical scope]] and the first to require implementations to perform [[tail-call optimization]], giving stronger support for functional programming and associated techniques such as recursive algorithms. It was also one of the first programming languages to support [[First-class object|first-class]] [[continuation]]s. It had a significant influence on the effort that led to the development of [[Common Lisp]].<ref name="cl_steele">Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Ed., Guy L. Steele Jr. Digital Press; 1981. {{ISBN|978-1-55558-041-4}}. "Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp, a successor to MacLisp, influenced strongly by ZetaLisp and to some extent by Scheme and InterLisp."</ref>

The Scheme language is standardized in the official [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE) standard<ref name="ieee1178">1178-1990 (Reaff 2008) IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language. IEEE part number STDPD14209, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100706171338/http://standards.ieee.org/board/rev/308minutes.html unanimously reaffirmed] at a meeting of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Standards Review Committee (RevCom), March 26, 2008 (item 6.3 on minutes), reaffirmation minutes accessed October 2009. This document is available from IEEE for purchase only, and not online at time of writing: 2009.</ref> <!--