Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation's lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses?

"The 2010 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming provides a forum for discussing experience with and future development of the Scheme programming language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, implementation, theory, and application of Scheme. We encourage everyone interested in Scheme to participate..."

"The Scheme workshop has been held every year since 2000 (http://www.schemeworkshop.org/). It is one of the main venues where the Scheme community can come together to discuss the Scheme programming language [...] Please take a few minutes of your time to complete the online survey at the following URL..."

"The Scheme language traditionally has very good support in Emacs [...] In this article I'll try to describe all packages, related to the Scheme support. First, I'll describe packages, working with all implementations of Scheme, and in the last sections, I'll describe packages, created for concrete implementations..."

"...The fourth edition has been substantially revised and expanded to bring the content up to date with the current Scheme standard, the Revised6 Report on Scheme. All parts of the book were updated and three new chapters were added, covering the language's new library, exception handling, and record-definition features..."

Last month, Daryl Lee gave us a taste of the language Scheme in the article It's time to learn Scheme with a C++ code generator. This time we will be looking at some practical examples written with Scheme Shell (SCSH): finding and replacing text in a bunch of files, sorting files in two different ways, and converting data from a CSV file to an HTML file.

"Scheme is a programming language, but Guile—an interpreter and library for Scheme—transforms it into an embedded scripting language, making it ideal for bringing dynamic new life to your static applications. Take a quick tour of Guile, and discover its powerful features for building extensible applications..."

"...Sketchy LISP presents an overview of the Scheme programming language with strong emphasis on functional programming. Language elements and programming techniques are explained by means of simple examples which are used to form more complex programs..." --

"This document is an introduction into using Guile, the GNU extension language and system. Guile is a dialect of the Scheme programming language, and I will assume you're at least confident about the very basics of Scheme or LISP in general.