Lexical closures became an important feature of the Lisp family through Scheme in the 1970s.

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"Lexical closures became an important feature of the Lisp family through Scheme in the 1970s."

Sussman and Steele's 1975 Scheme paper documents the development of a lexically scoped Lisp-family language. It provides a more precise historical reference for the development of lexical closures than the early-1960s dating in the supplied book excerpt.

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Source title SCHEME: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus

Source authors Gerald Jay Sussman; Guy Lewis Steele Jr.

Source year 1975

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