TinyScheme is a
free software
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implementation of the
Scheme programming language with a lightweight Scheme interpreter of a subset of the R
5RS standard. It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs. Much of the functionality in TinyScheme is included conditionally, to allow developers to balance features and size/footprint.
TinyScheme is used by the GNU Image Manipulation Program (
GIMP
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) starting with version 2.4, released in 2007. GIMP previously used
SIOD.
TinyScheme was used as the core of
Direct Revenue's adware, making it the world's most widely distributed Scheme runtime.
References
External links
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Scheme (programming language) interpreters
Scheme (programming language) implementations
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