LispMe is an

interpreter Interpreting is translation from a spoken or signed language into another language, usually in real time to facilitate live communication. It is distinguished from the translation of a written text, which can be more deliberative and make use o ...

for the Scheme programming language developed by Fred Bayer for

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. ...

PDAs. It is

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released under the

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. It is reasonably close to standard Scheme but is not fully R5RS compliant. Scheme source programs can be stored in Palm OS memopad format while Scheme sessions, are stored in Palm OS PDB database files and can be interrupted and restarted. There is some support for Palm OS user interface primitives. LispMe also provides some database support. LispMe sessions can be given a "starter icon", which appears in the Applications menu, enabling the session to be run as a Palm Pilot application. The product ended development in August 2008, but is fairly complete and quite robust.

References

External links

LispMe's homepage
* A review of LispMe on th
Scheme Wiki
Scheme (programming language) interpreters Scheme (programming language) implementations Palm OS software Free and open source interpreters {{PalmOS-stub