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diff --git a/lang/scheme48/pkg/DESCR b/lang/scheme48/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a5977c27b4d --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/scheme48/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Scheme 48 is an implementation of the Scheme programming language as +described in the Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. +It is based on a compiler and interpreter for a virtual Scheme +machine. The name derives from our desire to have an implementation +that is simple and lucid enough that it looks as if it were written in +just 48 hours. We don't claim to have reached that stage yet; much +more simplification is necessary. + +Scheme 48 tries to be faithful to the upcoming Revised^5 Scheme +Report, providing neither more nor less in the initial user +environment. (This is not to say that more isn't available in other +environments; see below.) Support for numbers is weak: bignums are +slow and floating point is almost nonexistent (see description of +floatnums, below). DEFINE-SYNTAX, LET-SYNTAX, LETREC-SYNTAX, and +SYNTAX-RULES are supported, but not the rest of the Revised^4 Scheme +macro proposal. |