Gauche is an R7RS

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implementation. It is designed for

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in a production environment. It is intended to allow programmers and system administrators to write scripts in support of daily operations. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support are some of its key design goals. Gauche is

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under the

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. It is primarily developed by Shiro Kawai.

Features

*Quick startup - Gauche includes common features in its executable, while less common functions are in libraries which are loaded on demand. *Module system - A simple module system, API compatible to

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. *Object system -

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-like object system with

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. Almost API compatible to

. It is also similar to

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's object system. *Native multilingual support - Strings are represented by multibyte string internally. You can use UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or no multibyte encoding. Conversion between native coding system and external coding system is supported by port objects. *Multibyte regexp - Regular expression matcher is aware of multibyte string; you can use multibyte characters both in patterns and matched strings. *Built-in system interface - Gauche has built-in support for most POSIX.1 system calls. *Network interface - Has API for socket-based network interface, including IPv6 if the OS supports it. *Multithreading - Multithreading is supported on top of pthreads. Scheme-level API conforms to SRFI-18. *DBM interface - Interfaces to dbm, ndbm and/or gdbm. *XML parsing - Oleg Kiselyov's SXML tools are included.

References

;Notes *R. Kelsey, W. Clinger, J. Rees (eds.), Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 11(1), September, 1998 and ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 33(9), October, 1998. *Carl Bruggeman, Oscar Waddell and R. Kent Dybvig, Representing control in the presence of one-shot continuations, in Proceedings of SIGPLAN '96, pp. 99-107, 1996. *Eugene Myers, An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations, Algorithmica Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 251-266, 1986. *Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel Bobrow, The Art of Metaobject Protocol, The MIT Press. *Kim Barrett, Bob Cassels, Paul Haahr, David A. Moon, Keith Playford, P. Tucker Withington, A Monotonic Superclass Linearization for Dylan, in Proceedings of OOPSLA 96, October 1996.

External links

Gauche home page
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20111001132005/http://users.lava.net/~shiro/Private/essay/gdc2002.html Tracking Assets in the Production of 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'br>Gluing Things Together - Scheme in a Real-time CG Content Production
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