For the history buffs: Pre-Scheme: A Scheme Dialect for Systems Programming Richard A. Kelsey, 1997 Abstract Pre-Scheme is a statically typed dialect

For the history buffs: Pre-Scheme: A Scheme Dialect for Systems Programming Richard A. Kelsey, 1997 Abstract Pre-Scheme is a statically typed dialect of Scheme that gives the programmer the eciency and low-level machine access of C while retaining many of the desirable features of Scheme. The PreScheme compiler makes use of type inference, partial evaluation and Scheme and Lisp compiler technology to compile the problematic features of Scheme, such as closures, into C code without signi cant run-time overhead. Use of such features in Pre-Scheme programs is restricted to those cases that can be compiled into ecient code. Type reconstruction is done using a modi ed Hindley/Milner algorithm that allows overloaded user-de ned functions. All top-level forms in Pre-Scheme programs are evaluated at compile time, which gives the user additional control over the compiler's partial evaluation of a program. Pre-Scheme has been implemented and used to write a byte-code interpeter and associated support code for a complete Scheme implementation. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.3.4031&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.3....