MIT/GNU Scheme
MIT/GNU Scheme is a programming language, a dialect and implementation of the language Scheme, which is a dialect of Lisp. It can produce native binary files for the x86 (IA-32, x86-64) processor architecture. It supports the R7RS-small standard. It is free and open-source software released under v2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It was first released by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, as free software even before the Free Software Foundation, GNU, and the GPL existed. It is now part of the GNU Project.
The MIT/GNU Scheme logo highlights function recursion. | |
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: functional, imperative, meta |
|---|---|
| Family | Lisp |
| Designed by | Chris Hanson, Guillermo J. Rozas, Taylor R. Campbell, Stephen Adams, Matt Birkholz, Arthur A. Gleckler, Joe Marshall, Brian A. LaMacchia, Mark Friedman, Henry M. Wu |
| Developer | MIT |
| First appeared | 1979 |
| Stable release | 11.2
/ 7 March 2021 |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic, latent, strong |
| Scope | Lexical |
| Platform | x86: IA-32, x86-64 |
| OS | Cross-platform: Linux, NetBSD, macOS |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| Lisp, Scheme | |
It features a rich runtime software library, a powerful source code level debugger, a native code compiler and a built-in Emacs-like editor named Edwin.
The books Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics include software that can be run on MIT/GNU Scheme.