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A Scheme interpreter is a primitive version of Deep Thought, the enigmatic supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ book. We type a question on a keyboard, the Scheme interpreter displays the answer on a screen, and then asks for another question.
“Alright,” said Deep Thought, “The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe, and Everything… Is… Is… Forty-two.”
—Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Pearce, J. (1998). Expressions and Values. In: Programming and Meta-Programming in Scheme. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1682-7_2
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