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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Extension Language Kit
Elk
<language> (Elk) A {Scheme} {interpreter} by Oliver Laumann
<[email protected]> and Carsten Bormann
<[email protected]> of the {Technical University of
Berlin}. Elk was designed to be used as a general extension
language. New {types} and {primitive} procedures can easily
be added. It has {first-class environments}, {dynamic-wind},
{fluid-let}, {macros}, {autoload}ing and a {dump}. It
provides interfaces to {Xlib}, {Xt} and various {widget} sets;
{dynamic loading} of extensions and {object files}; almost all
artificial limitations removed; {generational}/{incremental
garbage collector}; {Unix} {system call} extensions; {Records}
(structures) and {bit strings}.
Version: 2.2 is mostly {R3RS} compatible and runs on {Unix},
{Ultrix}, {VAX}, {Sun-3}, {Sun-4}, {68000}, {i386}, {MIPS}, {IBM
PC RT}, {RS/6000}, {HP700}, {SGI}, {Sony}, {MS-DOS}
({gcc}+{DJGPP} or {go32}).
Germany
(ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/Unix/languages/scheme/elk-2.2.tar.gz).
US (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/elk-2.2.tar.gz). US
(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/comp.sources.misc/volume8/elk).
(1994-12-15)