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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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Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:43:25 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Stephen Eilert scripsit:
> Perhaps it would be best for us to brainstorm what the new description
> is going to be and then submit it once it is complete, for them to
> review and include in the new packages.
Here's some suggested text for wordsmithing. It assumes the reader
knows something about Scheme, which I think is plausible, and emphasizes
Chicken's unique selling points. It's a boiling-down of the call/cc.org
home page.
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's interpreter is not
strongly performant, but does provide strong debugging facilities.
Chicken also has a repository with hundreds of user-contributed "eggs",
including most SRFIs and many other widely available Scheme libraries.
Comments?
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