Classic Scheme

What's supposed to be good about Scheme? As I understand it, Scheme didn't even originally have macros, eval, or apply. I can see why it was good for showing that lambda is the ultimate everything, but why did anyone ever try to make it into a real programming language?

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Scheme at some period of time could have material eval and apply in the future, but it still had them because having eval and apply is immanent to Scheme.