R. Kent Dybvig. The development of Chez Scheme, Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (invited paper/talk), 1-12, September, 2006 (bibtex).

Chez Scheme is now over 20 years old, the first version having been released in 1985. This paper takes a brief look back on the history of Chez Scheme's development to explore how and why it became the system it is today.