Appendix C Credits for this document

The skeleton of this document is the original “Ikarus User’s Guide” in XeLaTeX format, by Abdulaziz Ghulom. That document is available in the Ikarus distribution and is covered by the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. It is available at the following URLs:

Documentation: language definition, base and standard library

The chapters The Scheme language, Base library and Standard library are derived from the original “Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme” document and the original “Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme —- Standard Libraries”, authored by the following people:

MICHAEL SPERBER
R. KENT DYBVIG, MATTHEW FLATT, ANTON VAN STRAATEN
(Editors)

RICHARD KELSEY, WILLIAM CLINGER, JONATHAN REES
(Editors, Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme)

ROBERT BRUCE FINDLER, JACOB MATTHEWS
(Authors, formal semantics)

with various contributions by the following people:

Hal Abelson, Norman Adams, David Bartley, Gary Brooks, William Clinger, Daniel Friedman, Robert Halstead, Chris Hanson, Christopher Haynes, Eugene Kohlbecker, Don Oxley, Kent Pitman, Jonathan Rees, Guillermo Rozas, Guy L. Steele Jr., Gerald Jay Sussman, and Mitchell Wand.

and a lot of discussions and debates by the Scheme community. According to the following quotation from the original document:

We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in part without fee. In particular, we encourage implementors of Scheme to use this report as a starting point for manuals and other documentation, modifying it as necessary.

the documents are meant to be in the public domain. They are available at: