Show HN: A small R5RS-ish Scheme interpreter with call/cc
deanmen Thursday, January 01, 2026
I’ve been building a small Scheme interpreter as a learning project, mainly to understand continuations and core Scheme semantics. It supports mutable pairs and call/cc, and is intentionally minimal rather than production-ready. equal? is allowed to diverge on cyclic structures.
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The article provides an overview of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of Lisp. It discusses Scheme's key features, such as its simplicity, expressiveness, and functional programming paradigm, and highlights its use in education and as a foundation for other programming languages.
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