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Scheme is a fairly simple, extensible language. Scheme is extensible because functions that you define are essentially indistinguishable from built-in functions. As we will see in later chapters, with a good design a large part of writing an application program is developing a library of reusable components that in effect extend the Scheme language for your programming projects.
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Watson, M. (1996). Tutorial Introduction to Scheme. In: Programming in Scheme. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2394-8_2
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