Subject: FAQ: Scheme Implementations and Mailing Lists 2/2 [Monthly posting] Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp,news.answers,comp.answers From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz) Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 14:52:58 GMT Archive-name: scheme-faq/part2 Last-Modified: Tue Apr 12 23:15:10 1994 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.12 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Scheme ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz and Barry Margolin ;;; scheme_2.faq -- 32435 bytes This post contains part 2 of the Scheme FAQ. If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would like to improve an answer, please send email to us at lisp-faq@think.com. Topics Covered (Part 2): [2-1] Free Scheme implementations. [2-2] Commercial Scheme implementations. [2-3] What Scheme-related discussion groups and mailing lists exist? Search for \[#\] to get to question number # quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2-1] Free Scheme implementations. Repositories of Scheme source code are described in the answer to question [1-9]. Remember, when ftping compressed or compacted files (.Z, .z, .arc, .fit, etc.) to use binary mode for retrieving the files. Files that end with a .z suffix were compressed with the patent-free gzip (no relation to zip). Source for gzip is available from: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ as the files gzip-1.2.3.shar, gzip-1.2.3.tar,or gzip-1.2.3.msdos.exe. Repositories of Scheme implementations: Many free Scheme implementations are available from altdorf.ai.mit.edu [18.43.0.246]. See also the Scheme Repository described below. The Scheme Repository contains a Scheme bibliography, copies of the R4RS report, sample Scheme code for a variety of purposes, several utilities, and most free implementations. (Implementations of Scheme available from the repository include elk, gambit, scm, fools, rabbit, s48, scheme84, scheme88, pseudo, xscheme, umb-scheme, siod, vscm, and pixiescheme.) The repository was established by Ozan S. Yigit and is currently maintained by David Eby and John Zuckerman . The repository is accessible by anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/ [129.79.254.191] The repository is mirrored in INRIA, courtesy of Christian Queinnec [Ecole Polytechnique and INRIA-Rocquencourt], ftp.inria.fr:/lang/Scheme. (See also [1-9].) Scheme implementations: PC-Scheme (aka PCScheme, PC Scheme), free by anonymous ftp from altdorf.ai.mit.edu:/archive/pc-scheme/ Written by Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimizing compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Conforms to the Revised^3 Report on Scheme. Also supports the dialect used in Abelson and Sussman's SICP. The official commercialized implementation costs $95 and includes a reference manual and user's guide. Write to: Texas Instruments, 12501 Research Boulevard, MS 2151, Austin, TX 78759 and order TI Part number #2537900-0001, or call 1-800-TI-PARTS and order it using your Visa or Mastercard. [NOTE: Ibuki announced on July 13, 1992, that it has purchased the rights to PC Scheme from TI and intends to make it also available on 486 PCs and under Windows 3.1. For more information, contact IBUKI, PO Box 1627, Los Altos, CA 94022, phone (415) 961-4996, fax (415) 961-8016, email rww@ibuki.com. They're selling the Student Edition for $52.50 and the Professional Edition for $185. The Professional Edition includes the XLI package for interfacing with libraries written in other languages, and much more documentation.] Version 3.0, the one that comes with the student edition, doesn't run on the 486, but the free upgrade (pcscm3_3.exe in altdorf) works fine, as does the full version 3.03. PCS/Geneva is a cleaned-up version of Texas Instrument's PC Scheme developed at the University of Geneva. The main extensions to PC Scheme are 486 support, BGI graphics, LIM-EMS pagination support, line editing, mouse support, assembly-level interfacing, and several powerful Scheme-oriented editors. (TI's PC Scheme gives users full Revised^3 support along with many primitives for DOS, Graphics and Text Windows. A powerful built-in optimizing compiler produces fast code.) PCS/Geneva 4.02PL1 has been tested on XTs, ATs, AT386s and AT486s under various DOS and OS/2 versions. It even runs on Hewlett-Packard's HP95LX. It also runs on Suns with a DOS emulator. PCS/Geneva is available free by anonymous ftp from cui.unige.ch:/PUBLIC/pcs/ [129.194.70.1] as the files pcscheme.doc, pcscheme.exe, pcscheme.fil and pcscheme.taz or by email (uuencoded) from schemege@cui.unige.ch. If you ftp PCS/Geneva, please send mail to schemege@cui.unige.ch; the authors like to know their public and will inform you when a new release is available. This is also the email address for bug reports or if you need any kind of help. This product may be distributed freely and used without restrictions except for military purposes. (PCS/Geneva was developed by Larry Bartholdi and Marc Vuilleumier .) MIT Scheme (aka C-Scheme), is available free by anonymous FTP from martigny.ai.mit.edu:/archive/scheme-7.3 [18.43.0.152] Version 7.3 is a beta version and runs on DEC Alpha, DECStation (MIPS), HP 9000 300/400/700, IBM RS-6000, Intel i386/i486 (DOS, NT, Windows 3.1, or Linux), NeXT (NeXTOS 2 or 3), SGI (MIPS), Sony NEWS (MIPS), Sun3 (SunOS 4.1) and Sun4 (SunOS 4.1). Bugs should be reported to bug-cscheme@martigny.ai.mit.edu (for the DOS version, send bug reports to bug-cscheme-dos@martigny.ai.mit.edu). MIT Scheme includes Edwin (Scheme's Emacs-like editor) and Liar (the Scheme compiler). Does not have a convenient foreign function interface yet. FTP distribution includes MIT C-Scheme Reference and User manuals, as well as the Revised^4 Report on Scheme. Discussion occurs on the newsgroup comp.lang.scheme.c. For DOS floppy distribution requests (includes printed copies of manuals), send $95.00 (payable in U.S. funds to "Scheme Distribution") to cover costs of distribution to Scheme Distribution, c/o Prof. Hal Abelson, 545 Technology Sq. rm 410, Cambridge MA 02139, USA. | On the NeXT, MIT Scheme is available as part of the Schematik package, which provides an editor/front-end user interface, graphics, and "robotics" support for Lego and the like. Schematik is free and is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.gac.edu:/pub/next/scheme/ Europeans can get it more locally from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/ProgLang/ start with Schematik-1.1.5.1.README . Schematik is also apparently included on NeXT's "Educational Software Sampler" CD-ROM. | A preliminary unofficial port of C-Scheme to the Linux is available from artemide.dei.unipd.it:/linux/scheme-7.2/. Contact the author Matteo Frigo for more information. SCM, free by anonymous ftp from altdorf.ai.mit.edu:/archive/scm/ prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/jacal/ ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/new/ ftp.maths.tcd.ie:/pub/bosullvn/jacal/ Current version 4e1. Runs on Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, VMS, Unix and similar systems. SCM conforms to the Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme and the IEEE P1178 specification. Scm is written in C. ASCII and EBCDIC are supported. Written by Aubrey Jaffer. To receive an IBM PC floppy disk with the source files and MSDOS and i386 executables send $99 to Aubrey Jaffer, 84 Pleasant Street, Wakefield MA 01880, . SLIB (Standard Scheme Library) is a portable Scheme library which is intended to provide compatability and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations, including SCM, Chez, Elk, Gambit, MacScheme, MITScheme, scheme->C, Scheme48, T3.1, and VSCM, and is available as the file slib2a0.tar.gz. Written by Aubrey Jaffer. JACAL is a symbolic math system written in Scheme, and is available as the file jacal1a4.tar.gz. SCMCONFIG contains additional files for the SCM distribution to build SCM on Unix machines using GNU autoconf. SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor). TURTLSCM is a turtle graphics package which works with SCM on MSDOS or X11 machines. Written by Mkinen Sami and Jarkko Leppanen , it is available as the file turtlegr.tar.Z. (Also available from modeemi.cs.tut.fi:/pub/scm/ as turtlegr.tar.gz, along with an already-compiled MSDOS binary of scm with turtlegraphics and slib in scm4c0_b.zip.) XSCM is an X Windows interface to Xlib and the Motif and OpenLook toolkits for the SCM interpreter. It requires scm4a10 or later. It should be available at any archive of alt.sources, or on altdorf, prep and indiana as the file xscm1.05.tar.Z. Contact campbell@redsox.bsw.com for more information. SMG-SCM is a package that adds VMS SMG screen management routines to SCM. It is available from altdorf, prep and indiana as the file sgm-scm2a1.zip. (A VMS version of Unzip is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.spc.edu:[ANONYMOUS.MACRO32]UNZIP.EXE.) This file contains the source code, documentation, and example code. Send comments and bugs to T. Kurt Bond, (preferred) or . WB is a disk based, sorted associative array C library (database). These associative arrays consist of variable length (less that 256 bytes) keys and values. WB comes with an interface to SCM. Basic operations are creation, destruction, opening and closing of diskfiles and arrays, insertion, deletion, retrieval, successor, and predecessor (with respect to dictionary order of keys). Functional application of find-next, deletion, and modification over a range of consecutive key values is supported. Multiple associative arrays can be stored in one disk file. Simultaneous access to multiple disk files is supported. A structure checker, garbage collector are included. A repair program and ram-disk type file (for temporary structures) are in developement. The current WB implementation has a file size limit of 2^32 * block size (default 2048) = 2^43 bytes (8796 Gbytes). WB does its own memory and disk management. WB is available on altdorf, prep, and indiana as wb1a1.tar.z. A Windows version of Scheme called WinScm is forthcoming from Vincent Manis of Langara College of BC, Canada. Hobbit is a Scheme-to-C compiler that works with the SCM Scheme interpreter. It treats SCM as a C library and integrates compiled functions into SCM as new primitives. Hobbit release 2 works with SCM release 4b4. Future releases of SCM and Hobbit will be coordinated. Hobbit imposes strong restrictions on the higher-order features of Scheme. For example, it does not support continuations. The main aim of hobbit is to produce maximally fast C programs which would retain most of the original Scheme program structure, making the output C program readable and modifiable. Hobbit is written in Scheme and is able to self-compile. Hobbit can be obtained via anonymous ftp from altdorf.ai.mit.edu:/archive/scm/hobbit2.tar.Z prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/jacal/hobbit2.tar.Z ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/new/hobbit2.tar.Z For further information, contact the author, Tanel Tammet, at or at Tanel Tammet, Department of Computer Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Go"teborg, Sweden. Gambit is an optimizing Scheme compiler/system. It conforms to the IEEE-Scheme standard (IEEE P1178) and the Revised^4 Report on Scheme (R4RS). The system supports the whole numeric tower (i.e. integer, rational, real and complex numbers). It also has several extensions to the standards including: weak pairs, string ports, property lists, futures, pretty printer, debugger, compiler and multitasking. Gambit runs on M680x0 based machines only (including Sun3, Apollo, HP9000/3xx, BBN GP1000 multiprocessor, Amiga, NeXT, and the Apple Macintosh). The latest version for UNIX based machines (including the Macintosh running A/UX) is release 1.9. The latest version for the Mac running the normal System/Finder is MacGambit release 1.9.1. The distribution contains the interpreter and optimizing native code compiler and all the sources required to build the system (the sources for MacGambit are for THINK-C 5.0). MacGambit's specific features include: a Scheme interface to several Toolbox routines (mostly QuickDraw), a drawing window for simple graphics, an online help system containing R4RS and a Scheme oriented editor with an emacs compatibility mode. Gambit Scheme is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.iro.umontreal.ca:/pub/parallele/gambit/ [132.204.32.22] Versions 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8.2, 1.9.1 and 2.0 may be found in this directory. Version 2.0 is in the files gambit20.tar.Z (Unix source), macgambit-2.0-interpreter.hqx (MacGambit interpreter), macgambit-2.0-sources1.hqx (sources needed to build the interpreter using Think-C 5.0), and macgambit-2.0-sources2.hqx (Scheme source files for runtime and compiler, and DEC's Thomas interpreter). Copies may also be found in the Scheme Repository on ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/, but the most recent version will always be available from ftp.iro.umontreal.ca. MacGambit may also be obtained from the directory /afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac/development/languages/ if your site runs the Andrew File System, or by anonymous ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu. For more information about Gambit, send email to gambit@trex.iro.umontreal.ca. Gambit Scheme was written by Marc Feeley . Gambit for UNIX and MacGambit are copyright 1992, Universite de Montreal. The programs may be distributed to others as long as they are not sold or transferred for compensation (other than a reasonable duplication fee). T3.1 is a Scheme-like language developed at Yale. Available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/systems/t3.1/ T may be obtained in Europe from nic.funet.fi:/pub/unix/languages/scheme/t3.1/ ftp.diku.dk:/pub/t3.1/ Runs on DecStations (MIPS processor) and SGI Iris, Sun4 (SPARC), Sun3, Vax/Unix. Includes a copy of the online version of the T manual and release notes for T3.0 and T3.1. All implementations include a foreign function (C) interface. To be informed of fixes, new releases, etc., send your email address to t-project@cs.yale.edu. Bug reports should go to t3-bugs@cs.yale.edu. A multiprocessing version of T (for Encore Multimax) is available from masala.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/mult. [The sources were last modified November 22, 1991.] Oaklisp is an seamless integration of Scheme with an object-oriented substrate. Available by anonymous ftp from f.gp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/bap/oak/ftpable/ [128.2.250.164] or from ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bap/oak/ftpable/ and includes reference and implementation manuals. Written by Barak Pearlmutter and Kevin Lang . Elk (Extension Language Kit) is a Scheme interpreter designed to be used as a general extension language for applications written in C or C++. Elk can also be used as a stand-alone implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is mostly R4RS and P1178 conformant (with the exception of the number system and a few minor details). It has interfaces to Xlib, Xt, and the Athena and OSF/Motif widget sets. It includes dynamic incremental linking of C object files, an optional foreign function interface, and a generational garbage collector (by Marco Scheibe ). It can also dump an image of a fully customized application into a new executable file. Elk is available by anonymous ftp from tub.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/elk/ It is also available from the Scheme Repository in ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/ and in the X contrib directory on ftp.x.org (formerly export.lcs.mit.edu). Runs on Unix, SunOs, and Ultrix based platforms, including VAX, Sun3, Sun4 (Sparc), 680x0, 80386, MIPS, IBM RT, IBM RS/6000, HP9000/700, SGI, and Sony NEWS. Implemented by Oliver Laumann and Carsten Bormann . Scheme->C is an R4RS compliant Scheme system that is centered around a compiler that compiles Scheme to C. Besides the base language, the system includes "expansion passing style" macros, a foreign function call capability, records, weak pointers, 3 X11 interfaces, call/cc, and a generational, conservative, copying garbage collector. The result is a system that is portable, efficient, and able to build applications that contain a mix of compiled and interpreted Scheme, and compiled code from C, C++ and other languages. The current release of Scheme->C runs on the following systems: Digital Alpha AXP systems with OSF/1, MIPS based DECstations, VAXen with ULTRIX, MIPS based SGI systems, PC's running Microsoft Windows 3.1, Apple Macintosh's running system 7.1, HP 9000/300, HP 9000/700, Sony News, Harris Nighthawk and other m88k systems, linux, and Sun SPARC. Earlier releases also run on Sun3, DNx500, DN1000, 386's running Unix, DNx500, and DN1000 systems. The software is available for anonymous ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/Scheme-to-C/ [16.1.0.2] There are three interfaces to X11, all written in Scheme, available from gatekeeper. The first is a complete set of stubs to Xlib included in the base system. The second is an alternative to Xlib called SCIX, found in gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/X11/contrib/ The third, ezd, allows programs to easily produce interactive, structured graphics and is found in gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/ezd/ Those without ftp access can also obtain Scheme->C and ezd from the Prime Time Freeware CD, Vol. 1, No. 2. Additional information is available from the author at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Lab: Joel Bartlett, bartlett@decwrl.dec.com. SIOD (Scheme in One Defun), free by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/siod-v3.0-shar ftp.std.com:/pub/gjc/siod-3.0-shar or in any comp.sources.unix archive. Runs on VAX/VMS, VAX UNIX, Sun3, Sun4, Amiga, Macintosh, MIPS, Cray, Windows NT/WIN32. Small scheme implementation in C arranged as a set of subroutines that can be called from any main program for the purpose of introducing an interpreted extension language. Compiles to ~42K bytes of executable. Lisp calls C and C calls Lisp transparently. Version 3.0 includes support for manipulation of Oracle and Digital RDB relational databases (SQL interface). Written by George Carrette or . XScheme is available free by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net:/MSDOS/languages/X-scheme ftp.uu.net:/amiga-sources/xscheme.20.zoo It includes an object system and is R3RS compliant. It was written by David Michael Betz, 167 Villa Avenue #11, Los Gatos, CA 95032, 408-354-9303 (H), 408-862-6325 (W), dbetz@apple.com. XScheme is discussed in the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp.x. It may also be found in the Scheme Repository. Fools' Lisp is a small Scheme interpreter that is R4RS conformant, and is available by anonymous ftp from scam.berkeley.edu:/pub/src/local/fools.1.3.2.tar.Z [128.32.138.1] Fools' Lisp runs on Sun3 and Sun4 (SunOs), DecStation 3100s, Vax (Ultrix), Sequent, and Apollo. Implemented by Jonathan Lee . Scheme 48 is a Scheme implementation based on a virtual machine architecture. Scheme 48 is designed to be straightforward, flexible, reliable, and fast. It should be easily portable to 32-bit byte-addressed machines that have POSIX and ANSI C support. In addition to the usual Scheme built-in procedures and a development environment, library software includes support for hygienic macros (as described in the Revised^4 Scheme report), multitasking, records, exception handling, hash tables, arrays, weak pointers, and FORMAT. Scheme 48 implements and exploits an experimental module system loosely derived from Standard ML and Scheme Xerox. The development environment supports interactive changes to modules and interfaces. A beta release of Scheme 48 is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/scheme48-0.36.tar.Z martigny.ai.mit.edu:/archive/s48/scheme48-0.36.tar.gz ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/scheme/impl/s48/scheme48.tar.gz For more information, contact Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees at . UMB Scheme is a R4RS Scheme available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu:/pub/scheme/umb-scheme-2.10.tar.Z and also in the Scheme Repository. It includes a simple editor, debugger, Written by William Campbell, University of Massachusetts at Boston, bill@cs.umb.edu. VSCM is a R4RS Scheme available by anonymous ftp from the Scheme Repository, ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/vscmV0r2.tar.Z [130.63.9.66] Written by Matthias Blume, . The implementation is based on a virtual machine design with heavy support for most of the sophisticated features of Scheme. The virtual machine is written in ANSI-C to aid in its portability. The bytecode compiler is written in Scheme itself. Documentation of VSCM is also available as http://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/Matthias_Blume/vscm.html Pixie Scheme for the Macintosh is a nearly complete implementation of R3RS available by anonymous ftp from rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/misc/mac/programming/ Pixie.Goodies.SIT.bin Pixie.NoFPP.world.SIT.bin Pixie.world.SIT.bin PixieScheme.NoFPP.SIT.bin ; for macs without floating-point coprocessor PixieScheme.SIT.bin ; for macs with FPP Pixie_Scheme_Help.SIT.bin Pixie_intro Written by Jay Reynolds Freeman , P. O. Box 60628, Palo Alto, CA, 94306-0628. A copy may also be obtained from /afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac/development/languages as the file pixiescheme.cpt.hqx if your site runs the Andrew File System, or by anonymous ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu. HELP (a lazy Scheme) is available by anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/lang/lazy-scheme.hqx. Written by Thomas Schiex (schiex@cert.fr, schiex@irit.fr). Help is a complete and efficient Scheme-like functional lazy Lisp interpreter. It works only on 68020 (or more) based Macintoshes. It has a 'friendly' interface (parenthesis matcher, auto-indent), uses a full call-by-need semantics and includes many examples, including a symbolic compiler for the 680x0. Efficiency is good and lazyness is fully parametrizable (you may turn Help into a strict Scheme-like language if you like). French AND English updated docs are included in Word4 and plain text formats. Similix is a Self-Applicable Partial Evaluator for a Subset of Scheme. Written by Anders Bondorf, Olivier Danvy, and Jesper J{\o}rgensen. It is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/ as similix.tar.Z or from ftp.diku.dk:/pub/diku/dists/Similix.tar.Z. For more information, contact Anders Bondorf, DIKU, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, or send email to anders@diku.dk. Similix conforms to the IEEE and R4RS standards, but also runs under R3RS Scheme. It runs in SCM, Chez Scheme and T3.1. FDU Scheme is a R3RS implementation of Scheme for the Prime 50-series under Primos. It is available by anonymous ftp from fdumad.fdu.edu [132.238.1.1] (username "anonymous", password ). Attach to the Scheme subdirectory (cd '*>scheme') and transfer all files in it and its subdirectories using file type binary. For more information, contact Peter Falley, . BIGLOO is a Scheme interpreter and compiler. It conforms to the IEEE-Scheme standard (IEEE P1178) with some extensions, such as regular expression parsing (RGC), a lexical analyzer generator, a full foreign function interface, and a pattern matching compiler. Bigloo can also compile modules written in Caml (an ML dialect), letting you mix Scheme, ML, and C. Object-oriented programming is provided by Meroon v3. The main goal of Bigloo is to deliver small and fast stand alone applications. Bigloo produces ANSI C and hence should be easy to port. It runs on Sparc (1, 2, 10), SONY-NEWS (MIPS R3000), IRIS Indigo (MIPS R3000), Sun 3/60, DecStation 3100, PC-486 (linux), and HP-PA (730). It is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.inria.fr:/INRIA/Projects/icsla/Implementations/ [192.93.2.54] as the files bigloo1.6.tar.gz and camloo0.0.tar.gz. For further information, send email to Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr, or write to Manuel Serrano (equipe ICSLA, Bat 8), INRIA-Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153, Le Chesnay CEDEX, FRANCE, or call 39-63-57-32. LIBSCHEME is a C library implementing Scheme as described in R4RS. It is easily integrated into a C program as a command interpreter or extension langauge, and is easily extended in C with new primitive types, primitve functions and syntax. It should be portable to most machines with an ANSI C compiler. It is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/imp/ For more information, write to Brent Benson . Free Scheme Implementations implemented in Lisp: Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" has a chapters about Scheme interpreters and compilers, both written in Common Lisp. The software from the book is available by anonymous ftp from unix.sri.com:/pub/norvig and on disk in Macintosh or DOS format from the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann. For more information, contact: Morgan Kaufmann, Dept. P1, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo CA 94403, or call Toll free tel: (800) 745-7323; FAX: (415) 578-0672 PseudoScheme is available free by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu:/pub/jar/pseudo-2-9.tar.gz altdorf.ai.mit.edu:/archive/pseudo/pseudo-2-8.tar.Z It is Scheme implemented on top of Common Lisp, and runs in Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp under VMS, and Explorer CL. It should be easy to port to other Lisps. It was written by Jonathan Rees (jar@altdorf.ai.mit.edu, jar@cs.cornell.edu). Send mail to info-clscheme-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu to be put on a mailing list for announcements. Conforms to R4RS except for lacking a correct implementation of call/cc. It works by running the Scheme code through a preprocessor, which generates Common Lisp code. Scheme84 is in the public domain, and available by mail from Indiana University. It runs on the VAX in Franz Lisp under either VMS or BSD Unix. To receive a copy, send a tape and return postage to: Scheme84 Distribution, Nancy Garrett, c/o Dan Friedman, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Call 1-812-335-9770 or send mail to nlg@indiana.edu for more information. Scheme88 is available by anonymous ftp from rice.edu:/public/scheme88.sh and also from the Scheme Repository. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2-2] Commercial Scheme implementations. Chez Scheme is fully compatible with the IEEE and R4RS standards for the Scheme programming language and includes an incremental compiler, object inspector, multitasking with engines, and a foreign function interface. It runs on Sparc and Sun3 (SunOs), Vax and DecStation (Ultrix), NeXT, Silicon Graphics, and Motorola Delta 88000, costs approximately $2000 and requires 4-8mb RAM. Implemented by Kent Dybvig, Robert Hieb, and Carl Bruggeman. Write to: Cadence Research Systems, 620 Park Ridge Road, Bloomington, IN 47408, call (812) 333-9269, or fax (812) 332-4688. email: dyb@cs.indiana.edu or dyb@cadence.bloomington.in.us MacScheme is a Scheme interpreter and compiler for the Apple Macintosh, and includes an editor, debugger and object system. MacScheme costs $125 (includes compiler) and Scheme Express costs $70 (interpreter only). It requires 1mb RAM. A development environment (MacScheme+Toolsmith) costs $495. Conforms to the Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. MacScheme+Toolsmith includes support for menus, windows, and interfaces to the Macintosh Toolbox, and can create small standalone Macintosh executables. Implemented by Will Clinger, John Ulrich, Liz Heller and Eric Ost. Write to: Lightship Software, PO Box 1636, Beaverton, OR 97075, or call (503) 292-8765. They're moving to California. The temporary phone number is 415-940-4008 (Liz Heller). The new phone number will be 415-694-7799. MacScheme is distributed by ACS, 2015 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84109-2630, 1-800-531-3227 (801-484-3923). EdScheme runs on Macintosh, DOS and Atari ST and costs $50. It includes an incremental compiler, editor, and turtle graphics interface, and is a close match to the IEEE standard. Implemented by Iain Ferguson, Edward Martin, and Burt Kaufman. The book (The Schemer's Guide) is 328 pages long costs $30. Write to: Schemers Inc., 2136 NE 68th Street, Suite 401, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308, call (305) 776-7376, or fax (305) 776-6174. You can also send email to 71020.1774@compuserve.com. They also offer an Archimedes (Acorn) platform which is only available through their European distributor, Lambda Publications, who is reachable by phone at 44-793-695296 or by EMail on 100015.1465@compuserve.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2-3] What Scheme-related discussion groups and mailing lists exist? Before posting to any discussion group, please read the rest of this FAQ, to make sure your question isn't already answered. See the Lisp FAQ for a list of Lisp-related discussion groups and mailing lists. We list here only those newsgroups and mailing lists directly associated with Scheme. Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme General Scheme-related discussion. This newsgroup is available in digest fromat as part of the Scheme Digest scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu. comp.lang.scheme.c Discussion of C-Scheme, a scheme dialect. This newsgroup is gatewayed to the info-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu mailing list. comp.lang.lisp.x Discussion of XLISP, a dialect of Lisp, and XScheme. comp.lang.dylan Discussion of Dylan (see [4-6]), Apple's new Scheme-like programming language. Gatewayed to info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com. We list several mailing lists below. In general, to be added to a mailing list, send mail to the "-request" version of the address. This avoids flooding the mailing list with annoying and trivial administrative requests. [To subscribe to info-mcl, info-dylan, or other mailing lists based at cambridge.apple.com, send a message to majordomo@cambridge.apple.com with "subscribe " in the message body. Likewise use "unsubscribe " to cancel your subscription and "help" to get help.] General Scheme Mailing Lists: scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu Discussion of Scheme. Gatewayed to the comp.lang.scheme newsgroup. scheme@ai.mit.edu General discussion about Scheme. Particular Flavors of Scheme: info-cscheme@altdorf.ai.mit.edu, info-cscheme@zurich.ai.mit.edu C-Scheme. Gatewayed to the comp.lang.scheme.c newsgroup. t-project@cs.yale.edu T, a dialect of Scheme. info-clscheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu PseudoScheme info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com Dylan (not really scheme, but) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF*