IronScheme is an implementation of the

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targeting the

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. IronScheme is a complete rewrite of IronLisp, incorporating lessons learnt while developing IronLisp. IronScheme was planning to build upon the Microsoft

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, but decided to abandon this idea because the DLR

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the project used became out of sync with the

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, and also because the DLR, according to the developers, could not support the majority of the Scheme's requirements. IronScheme eventually made a limited use of its own version of the Microsoft's DLR, but it had to patch it to be able to implement some required Scheme features like

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IronScheme on GitHub
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