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The '''history of the [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] programming language''' begins with the development of earlier members of the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] family of languages during second half of the twentieth century, the process of design and development during which language designers [[Guy L. Steele]] and [[Gerald Jay Sussman]] released an influential series of ArtificialMIT Intelligence[[AI MemosMemo]]s known as the [[Lambda Papers]] (1975-1980), the growth in popularity of the language, and the era of standardization (1990 onwards). Much of the history of Scheme has been documented by the developers themselves.<ref name="steele_history">Guy Steele, 2006, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, [http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/JAOO-SchemeHistory-2006public.pdf History of Scheme] (slideshow, PDF)</ref>

==Prehistory==

The development of Scheme was heavily influenced by two predecessors that were quite different from one another: [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] provided its general semantics and syntax, and [[ALGOL]] provided its [[scope (programming)|lexical scope]] and block structure.