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Line 66: ==Influence== Scheme was the first dialect of Lisp to choose [[scope (programming)\|lexical scope]]. It was also one of the first programming languages after Reynold's Definitional Language <ref>John Reynolds. Definitional interpreters for higher order programming languages ACM Conference Proceedings. 1972.</ref> to support [[First-class object\|first-class]] [[continuation]]s. It had a large impact on the effort that led to the development of its sister-language, [[Common Lisp]], to which Guy Steele was a contributor.<ref name="lispworks">LispWorks, [http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/01_ab.htm Common Lisp Hyperspec - History]</ref> ==Standardization==

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