Larceny (Scheme implementation)

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Larceny

Developer:	The Larceny Project
Latest release:	0.93 / Nov 10, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Programming language
License:	Open Source
Website:	ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/

The Larceny Project is a set of Scheme implementations using the Twobit optmizing Scheme compiler. Larceny is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or Sparc code, Petit Larceny is a Scheme to C compiler and Common Larceny is a Microsoft .NET compatible implementation running in the Common Language Runtime and generating Common Intermediate Language.

Larceny is a research-quality implementation of Scheme compiler for the SPARC (available since 1999).
Petit Larceny is a portable implementation of Scheme compiler that compiles to C instead of SPARC machine code (available since June 2005).
Common Larceny is an implementation of Scheme compiler that compiles to Microsoft's IL instead of C and runs on Microsoft's CLR (Common Language Runtime) (available since November 2004).

The Larceny's software is open source and available online.