1.3 Resources

The Vicare Scheme package is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and can be downloaded from:

the home page of the project is at:

development takes place at:

Newcomers to Scheme should refer to http://www.schemers.org, which contains listings of tutorials and books that are helpful in learning the language.

This document is a supplement to the Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, found at http://www.r6rs.org. Kent Dybvig’s The Scheme Programming Language, Fourth Edition, is an excellent tutorial and reference for R6RS. Some extended features of Vicare have been inspired by similar features in Chez Scheme; the Chez Scheme User’s Guide can be found at the same site.