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::: Hm, "misleading" and "revisionist" are strong words, but I agree that the goals driving the original conception of Scheme (understanding the actors model) are far removed from the goals driving the later development of Scheme, and the very first paragraph of an entry on Scheme in an encyclopedia should probably describe the status quo of Scheme rather than the reasons for its creation. That being said I think that the first five paragraphs of this entry taken together already provide a quite balanced overview of the features and roots of Scheme.
::: (I also agree that continuations as first-class objects is an important characteristic of Scheme, but its inclusion in Standard Scheme was and remains a topic that is controversially discussed amongst the editors of RnRS. First-class continuations are mentioned in the third paragraph right after the lexical scoping that was adopted from [[Algol]]. [[Algol]] was probably as strong an influence in the early development of Scheme as the
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