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-Reports onScheme).
+Reports on Scheme).
Unlike -- for example -- Python or Perl, Scheme has no benevolent
dictator. There are many Scheme implementations, with different
characteristics and with communities and academic activities around
them, and the language develops as a result of the interplay between
these. Guile's particular characteristics are that
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it is easy to combine with other code written in C
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it actually supports several languages, not just Scheme.
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The next few sections explain what we mean by these points. The
sections after that cover how you can obtain and install Guile, a tour