Gleam Gleam is a simple Scheme language interpreter written in Java.
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Gleam is a simple Scheme language interpreter written in Java. Gleam is a simple Scheme language interpreter written in Java. Gleam's goals are to support the discovery of Scheme for beginners, simplicity, R5RS compliance, and full integration with the Java platform (with the ability to call Java code from Scheme and vice versa).This is a project that I started in 2001 while looking for a Lisp interpreter to give scripting capabilities to Java programs. I already knew Lisp (and liked it a lot) from my university days in Pisa, Italy.Then I discovered Scheme, and I was instantly fascinated by the simplicity and elegance of the language. I found out that there were already some good Java implementations of Scheme, but, you know, I have to try my hand at something to really understand it.So I started my simple, slow implementation of an interpreter, always looking at the R5RS document for reference. One of the first things that I was curious to implement were first-class continuations. I wondered if there was a simple way to do those in Java. In fact, this being an interpreter, it was relatively easy to emulate them. For a compiler I think it would be quite tricky. We'll see when we reach version 2

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