chicken
- A simple Scheme-to-C compiler
/Main/Debian/i386/interpreters/
Why CHICKEN?
- R5RS support.
- SRFIs 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 23
- Syntax-case highlevel macros
- Lightweight threads based on first-class continuations
- Pattern matching with Andrew Wright's match package
- Record structures
- A simple and straightforward module system
- An object system with multiple inheritance, multimethods and a
meta-object protocol
- Separated compilation poses no problem and full tail-recursion and
first-class continuations are suported.
- Extended comment- and string-literal syntaxes
- Libraries for regular expressions, string handling, Common LISP
style format, UNIX system calls and extended data structures
- Create interpreted or compiled shell scripts written in Scheme
- Compiled C files can be easily distributed
- Generates quite portable C code and compiled files generated by it
(including itself) should work without any change on DOS, Windows,
most UNIX-like platforms, and with minor changes on other systems.
- Linkage to C modules and C library functions is straightforward.
Compiled programs can easily be embedded into existing C code.
- Simple. It can be used as a pedagogical tool for anybody who is
interested in the workings of a compiler.
- Extendable, since its code generation scheme, runtime system, and
garbage collector fit neatly into a C environment.
- Offers better performance than nearly all interpreter based
implementations, but still provides full Scheme semantics.
- Probably is the first implementation of Scheme that uses Henry
Baker's [Cheney on the M.T.A] concept.
Usually, you will also need to install the chicken-dev package. The
source files are not included since you could easily get them with
the Debian source package. If you really feel the needs to get them
under /usr/share/chicken/src, then please let me know.
There are many Scheme implementations available in Debian, have a look
at each of them! Have fun!
| Homepage: | - |
| Package version: | 0.990-1 |
| Architecture: | i386 |
| Distribution: | Debian |
| Filename: | chicken_0.990-1_i386.deb |
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