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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander? |
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Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:46:35 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Zbigniew scripsit:
> It would be equally true to say that Chicken comes with a reasonably
> fast interpreter for interactive use and scripting.
Okay, I'm good with that. Here's the text now:
Chicken is an optimizing batch compiler for the R5RS Scheme language.
It produces portable, efficient C supporting tail recursion, first-class
continuations, and lightweight threads. Interfacing to and from C
is emphasized, including both static and dynamic loading of Chicken
code, with full support for Posix functions. Chicken comes with a
reasonably fast interpreter for interactive use, debugging, and scripting.
Chicken also has a repository with hundreds of user-contributed "eggs",
including most SRFIs and many other widely available Scheme libraries.
Any further contributions?
> Imagine this blurb for python:
Point taken.
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