of programming languages. The other dialects are called "Common Lisp" and "Clojure".
Scheme is the more clean and minimalist dialect, and is what's mostly used in
academic circles.
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+* In your web browser:
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+ There is a (slow, bare-bones) version of Scheme available for online use at <http://tryscheme.sourceforge.net/>.
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Scheme itself has umpteen different "implementations", which share most of
their fundamentals, but have slightly different extensions and interact with
the operating system differently. One major implementation is called Racket,
The current version of Racket is 6.1.1 (released November 2014).
-* In your web browser:
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- There is a (slow, bare-bones) version of Scheme available for online use at <http://tryscheme.sourceforge.net/>.
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* **To install in Windows**
Go to <http://racket-lang.org/download/>. Download and install the "Windows x64" version. (Or the "Windows x86" verson if you have an older, 32-bit system.)