Kawa/debian/control

Source: kawa
Section: interpreters
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Per Bothner <bothner@Cygnus.COM>
Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2

Package: kawa
Architecture: all
Recommends: jdk1.1-runtime
Description: Implementation of Scheme on Java VM
 Kawa (pronounced kava) is a Scheme interpreter written completely in Java.
 Scheme procedures are compiled into Java bytecodes for efficiency.
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 Scheme is a high-level non-pure functional language in the Lisp family,
 with lexical scoping dynamically-types.
 The Kawa dialect of Scheme contains hooks to access and control Java objects.
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 The release includes a number of useful classes, including
 a package that makes it easy to create .class files, and
 powerful Number classes.