Scheme

Scheme is a programming language that supports multiple paradigms, including functional programming, and is known for its minimalist syntax and elegant design. Scheme was created by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman in 1975 while they were working on the AI language Lisp at MIT. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp, and shares many features with other Lisp dialects, including a focus on symbolic computation and list processing. Scheme's minimalist syntax is based on a small number of basic forms, which can be combined to form more complex expressions. This makes Scheme code easy to read and understand, and also allows for powerful metaprogramming capabilities. Scheme is also a statically typed language, which means that type errors can be caught at compile-time. Scheme is widely used in academia, and has been adopted as the teaching language in many introductory computer science courses. It is also used in a variety of commercial and open-source projects.