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Gambit, also called Gambit-C, is a
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, a variant of the language family
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, and its variants named
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. The Gambit
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consists of a Scheme interpreter, and a
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which compiles Scheme into the language C, which makes it
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. It conforms to the standards R4RS, R5RS, and
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(IEEE), and to several Scheme Requests for Implementations (SRFIs). Gambit was released first in 1988, and Gambit-C (Gambit with a C backend) was released first in 1994. They are
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released under a
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(LGPL) 2.1, and Apache License 2.0. By compiling to an
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, in this case portable C (as do
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, Bigloo and Cyclone), programs written in Gambit can be compiled for common popular
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s such as
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,
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, other
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systems, and
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.


Gerbil Scheme

Gerbil scheme is a variant of Scheme implemented on Gambit-C. It supports current R*RS standards and common SRFIs and has a state of the art macro and
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system inspired by Racket language.


Termite Scheme

Termite Scheme is a variant of Scheme implemented on Gambit-C. Termite is intended for distributed computing, it offers a simple and powerful
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model of concurrency, inspired by that of Erlang.


C++ and Objective-C integration

While the Gambit compiler produces C code only, it has full integration support for C++ and
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compilers such as
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(GCC). Thus, software written in Gambit-C can contain C++ or Objective-C code, and can fully integrate with corresponding libraries.


See also

* Chicken (Scheme implementation) * Stalin (Scheme implementation)


References


External links

* *
Termite home page on Google Code

Gerbil Scheme homepage
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