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Scheme 48 is an implementation of the Scheme programming language as
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described in the Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. It
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is based on a compiler and interpreter for a virtual Scheme machine.
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Scheme 48 tries to be faithful to the Revised5 Scheme Report, providing
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neither more nor less in the initial user environment. It is based on a
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byte-code interpreter and is designed to be used as a testbed for
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experiments in implementation techniques and as an expository tool.
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It has a foreign function interface for calling functions from C and
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comes with a regex library, and a POSIX interface. It is supported by
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SLIB the portable Scheme library.
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