Re: [Chicken-users] Clojure

[Andreas Rottmann]

Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:42:16PM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>> If you want real Scheme (rather than just lisp-like) you could try
>> Kawa.  I have not tried either one, though.
>
> Actually, I think SISC is the canonical Scheme-on-Java.  Not sure why,
> possibly because it's better maintained or implements Scheme more
> completely?
>
IIRC, SISC is a complete implementation of R5RS, while Kawa punts on
continuations (it has only escape continuations) and proper tail
calls[0].

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/complications.html

Regards, Rotty