Are there people using the Scheme programming language out there? [closed]

Answer 1

Scheme is used mainly for teaching purposes. That's one reason there hasn't been a standard module system until the (controversial) RSR6 one: when writing small programs for homework it's unusual to need lots of big libraries.

Scheme started out as an experiment to add Smalltalk-like OOP to Lisp. It eventually changed the macro system, added call/cc (and dynamic-wind, dynamic-unwind), and grew quite a bit.

Aside from the GNU projects using Guile as a scripting language, I don't know of any production systems using Scheme. I do know of a handful of production systems using Lisp, though (Orbitz has Lisp code in its reservation system).

Answer 2

JavaScript is remarkably similar to Scheme in many ways (though it is missing continuations and the advanced numerical system of Scheme).

From "ECMAScript Language Overview" (PDF). 2007-10-23. pp. 4. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

ES3 is a simple, highly dynamic, object-based language that takes its major ideas from the languages Self and Scheme. The programming style is a mixture of object-based and functional programming: The primary abstraction mechanisms in ES3 are lexically scoped higher-order functions and mutable objects ...

Answer 3

I'm learning about it in my Program Language Design class, it has some neat uses. I would only use it for a problem that lends itself easily to tail recursion.