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A Bit of Scheme

• A mid-1970s dialect of LISP, designed to be cleaner, more modern, and simpler version than the contemporary dialects of LISP

• Uses only static scoping

• Functions are first-class entities

• They can be the values of expressions and elements of lists

• They can be assigned to variables and passed as parameters