Better Scheme
A Jeff Walker Programming Language
Project Status: The language is designed and largely implemented, now it is a matter of coding and documenting.

• A New Vision for Better Scheme
• Purpose & Goals
  • Be highly consistent
  • Improve the language's functional nature
  • Consistency with the lambda calculus
  • Optimize but not at the cost of other goals


• Differences from Scheme
  • Values are Functions
  • Void
  • Vectors
  • Macros
  • Currying
  • Evaluative Comma


• Better Scheme Specification
• Design:
  • Rationale
  • Problems


• Reference Implementation
  


• References
  
  
• To Do
  

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jwalker@cs.oberlin.edu