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- Subject: Kawa 1.6.1 Scheme compiler and runtime in Java
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- URL
- http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner/kawa.html (Information)
- ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/bothner/kawa-current.tar.gz (Code)
- ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/bothner/kawa-current-compiled.zip (Application)
- ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/bothner/kawa_1.6.1_all.deb (Debian package)
- DESCRIPTION
- Kawa (pronounced kava) is a Scheme evaluator written completely in Java.
- Scheme procedures are compiled into Java bytecodes for efficiency.
- This is a fairly complete implementation of Scheme, with many useful
- extensions, but general tail-call-elimination and continuations
- are not supported yet.
- The release includes a number of useful classes, including
- a package that makes it easy to create .class files, and
- powerful Number classes.
- The full sources and documentation is available by anonymous ftp
- from ftp.cygnus.com, in pub/bothner/kawa-current.tar.gz.
- The pre-compiled .class files (only) are in the same directory
- in kawa-current-compiled.tar.gz.
- VERSION
- Kawa 1.6.1.
- CHANGES
- There have been many changes since the last public release.
- Major ones include access to Java fields and arrays; exception
- handling (low-level try-catch as well as Guile's catch/throw);
- internationalized ports with a programmable promt and transcript;
- ability to compile a stand-alone Scheme application; various
- optimizations; numerous new procedures; and a better home page,
- including javadoc internals documentation and a mail archive.
- See http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner/kawa/News.txt.
- There is now a .deb package file for easy installation on Debian
- GNU/Linux systems.
- PRICE
- Free for commercial and non-commercial use.
- --Per Bothner
- Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner
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