Kawa is a language

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written in the programming language

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that implements the programming language

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, a dialect of Lisp, and can be used to implement other languages to run on the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a part of the

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. The name ''Kawa'' comes from the

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word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee. Kawa is notable as one of the few programming languages with support for

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in the form of

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Integration with Java

Besides using the language Scheme, Java object fields and methods can be accessed using code such as: . This will invoke a Java method, and does the same thing as in Java. An object's fields can be accessed with: or . Static (class) methods can be invoked with the function . Kawa can be extended with Java code (by creating scheme functions in Java), and combined with other JVM implementations.

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Integration with Java

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