| Name : scheme48-prescheme
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| Version : 1.7
| Vendor : openSUSE Build Service
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| Release : 2.2
| Date : 2007-12-17 16:50:59
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| Group : Development/Scheme
| Source RPM : scheme48-1.7-2.2.src.rpm
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| Size : 5.53 MB
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| Packager : (none)
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| Summary : PreScheme compiler
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Description :
Pre-Scheme is a low-level dialect of Scheme, designed for systems programming
with higher-level abstractions. For example, the Scheme48 virtual machine is
written in Pre-Scheme. Pre-Scheme is a particularly interesting alternative to
C for many systems programming tasks, because not only does it operate at about
the same level as C, but it also may be run in a regular high-level Scheme
development with no changes to the source, without resorting to low-level stack
munging with tools such as gdb. Pre-Scheme also supports two extremely
important high-level abstractions of Scheme: macros and higher-order, anonymous
functions. Richard Kelsey\'s Pre-Scheme compiler, based on his PhD research on
transformational compilation, compiles Pre-Scheme to efficient C, applying
numerous intermediate source transformations in the process.
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