[Chicken-users] Fwd from cygwin ML: New package: chicken-3.4.0-1

[Nathan Thern]

Hey Chicken users,
Chicken is now an official cygwin package!
I am the POC and maintainer for the package. Everything seems to work
well, but I haven't really stressed the system yet. Comments/critiques
welcome.

regards,
Nate T

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From: Nathan Thern <address@hidden>
Date: Oct 10, 2008 9:23 AM
Subject: New package: chicken-3.4.0-1
To: address@hidden, address@hidden


The chicken implementation of the scheme programming language is now
 available with the Cygwin distribution.

  * http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ (Homepage)


 DESCRIPTION:
 ============

 CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN
 produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the Scheme
 language standard, R5RS, and includes many enhancements and
 extensions. CHICKEN runs on MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours.

 FEATURES:
 =========

  * Includes a full-featured interactive interpreter as well as an
 optimizing batch compiler
  * Full support for tail recursion, first-class continuations and
 high-level macros
  * Highly portable and known to run on many platforms, including x86,
 x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC and UltraSPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC,
 ARM and S/390
  * Distributed free for use and modification under the terms of the BSD License
  * Transparent support for dynamically loadable compiled code and linkage to C
  * A sophisticated but easy to use foreign function interface for
 accessing C and C++ libraries from Scheme code
  * Lightweight threads based on first-class continuations
  * An object system with multiple dispatch, multiple inheritance and
 meta-object protocol
  * Provides the syntax-case enhanced high-level macro system
 (including R5RS syntax-rules), and define-macro style low-level macros
  * Support for syntactic pattern-matching via Andrew Wright's match package
  * Execution profiling, debugging, backtrace and single-stepping support
  * A POSIX interface that covers environment and filesystem access,
 pipes, processes, signals, locks, sockets, and low-level and
 memory-mapped I/O
  * Perl compatible regular expressions
  * Support for interpreted or compiled shell scripts under Unix and Windows
  * CHICKEN is supported by SWIG so interfacing to C or C++ can be automated
  * Support for a large number of Scheme Requests For Implementation (SRFIs)
  * Many libraries and extensions are available at "Eggs unlimited"

 enjoy!
 Nate T

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