Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?

[felix winkelmann]

On Dec 21, 2007 4:43 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'd remove that last sentence above.

> Chicken also has a repository with hundreds of user-contributed "eggs",
> including most SRFIs and many other widely available Scheme libraries.


cheers,
felix