Gauche is an R7RS
Scheme implementation. It is designed for
scripting in a production environment. It is intended to allow programmers and system administrators to write scripts in support of daily operations. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support are some of its key design goals.
Gauche is
free software
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under the
BSD License
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. It is primarily developed by Shiro Kawai.
Features
*Quick startup - Gauche includes common features in its executable, while less common functions are in libraries which are loaded on demand.
*Module system - A simple module system, API compatible to
STklos.
*Object system -
CLOS
Clos may refer to:
People
* Clos (surname)
Other uses
* CLOS, Command line-of-sight, a method of guiding a missile to its intended target
* Clos network, a kind of multistage switching network
* Clos (vineyard), a walled vineyard; used in Fran ...
-like object system with
metaobject protocol. Almost API compatible to
STklos. It is also similar to
Guile
Guile may refer to:
* Astuteness, deception.
* GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language
* Guile (''Street Fighter''), a video game character from the ''Street Fighter'' series
* Guile (''Chrono Cross''), a video game chara ...
's object system.
*Native multilingual support - Strings are represented by multibyte string internally. You can use UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or no multibyte encoding. Conversion between native coding system and external coding system is supported by port objects.
*Multibyte regexp - Regular expression matcher is aware of multibyte string; you can use multibyte characters both in patterns and matched strings.
*Built-in system interface - Gauche has built-in support for most POSIX.1 system calls.
*Network interface - Has API for socket-based network interface, including IPv6 if the OS supports it.
*Multithreading - Multithreading is supported on top of pthreads. Scheme-level API conforms to SRFI-18.
*DBM interface - Interfaces to dbm, ndbm and/or gdbm.
*XML parsing - Oleg Kiselyov's SXML tools are included.
References
;Notes
*R. Kelsey, W. Clinger, J. Rees (eds.), Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 11(1), September, 1998 and ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 33(9), October, 1998.
*Carl Bruggeman, Oscar Waddell and R. Kent Dybvig, Representing control in the presence of one-shot continuations, in Proceedings of SIGPLAN '96, pp. 99-107, 1996.
*Eugene Myers, An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations, Algorithmica Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 251-266, 1986.
*Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel Bobrow, The Art of Metaobject Protocol, The MIT Press.
*Kim Barrett, Bob Cassels, Paul Haahr, David A. Moon, Keith Playford, P. Tucker Withington, A Monotonic Superclass Linearization for Dylan, in Proceedings of OOPSLA 96, October 1996.
External links
Gauche home page
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20111001132005/http://users.lava.net/~shiro/Private/essay/gdc2002.html Tracking Assets in the Production of 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'br>Gluing Things Together - Scheme in a Real-time CG Content Production
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