Scheme 2025

The Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is a yearly meeting of programming language practitioners who share an aesthetic sense embodied by the Algorithmic Language Scheme: universality through minimalism, and flexibility through rigorous design.

Call for Papers

The 2025 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is calling for submissions.

We invite high-quality papers and talk proposals about novel research results, lessons learned from practical experience in an industrial or educational setting, and even new insights on old ideas. We welcome and encourage submissions that apply to any dynamic functional language, especially those that can be considered a Scheme: from strict subsets of RnRS to other “Scheme” implementations, to Racket, to Lisp dialects including Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, to functional languages with continuations and/or macros (or extended to have them) such as Dylan, ECMAScript, Hop, Lua, Scala, Rust, etc. The elegance of the paper and the relevance of its topic to the interests of Schemers will matter more than the surface syntax of the examples used.

Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Interaction: program-development environments, debugging, testing, refactoring
• Implementation: interpreters, compilers, tools, garbage collectors, benchmarks
• Extension: macros, hygiene, domain-specific languages, reflection, and how such extension affects interaction
• Expression: control, modularity, ad hoc and parametric polymorphism, types, aspects, ownership models, concurrency, distribution, parallelism, non-determinism, probabilism, and other programming paradigms
• Integration: build tools, deployment, interoperation with other languages and systems
• Formal semantics: theory, analyses and transformations, partial evaluation
• Human factors: past, present and future history, evolution and sociology of the language Scheme, its standard and its dialects
• Education: approaches, experiences, curricula
• Applications: industrial uses of Scheme
• Scheme pearls: elegant, instructive uses of Scheme

Dates

• Submission deadline is Thursday July 17, 2025.
• Authors will be notified by Monday August 11, 2025.
• Camera-ready versions are due Monday August 25, 2025.
• Workshop will be held in Singapore on Thursday October 16, 2025.

All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12, anywhere on Earth.

Submission Information

This year, we plan to invite three categories of submissions: regular papers, abstracts, and lightning talk proposals. We also intend to publish an EPTCS proceedings including all accepted contributions. Please note that only regular papers will be treated as a formal publication. We will provide more details soon.

Participant Support

Attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover participation-related expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for accommodations for members with physical disabilities. For details on the PAC program, see its web page.