Scheme 48

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Scheme 48
Developed by	Richard Kelsey, Jonathan Rees
Latest release	1.8 / February 07, 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Programming language
License	BSD License
Website	s48.org
Standard(s)	R5RS

Scheme 48 is a free software Scheme implementation using a bytecode interpreter. It has an foreign function interface for calling functions from C and comes with a regex library, and a POSIX interface. It is supported by SLIB the portable Scheme library and is the basis for Scsh, the Scheme shell.

It's called "Scheme 48" because the first version was written in 48 hours. The authors now say it is intended to be understood in 48 hours.

[edit] External links

• Scheme 48 home page