The Gambit programming system is a full implementation of the Scheme
language which conforms to the R4RS and IEEE Scheme standards. It
consists of two main programs: gsi-gambit, the Gambit Scheme
interpreter, and gsc-gambit, the Gambit Scheme compiler.
Gambit-C is a version of the Gambit programming system in which the
compiler generates portable C code, making the whole Gambit-C system
and the programs compiled with it easily portable to many computer
architectures for which a C compiler is available. With appropriate
declarations in the source code the executable programs generated by
the compiler run roughly as fast as equivalent C programs.
The GCL system contains C and Lisp source files to build a Common
Lisp sytem. The original KCL system was written by Taiichi Yuasa
and Masami Hagiya in 1984. The AKCL system work was begun in 1987
by William Schelter and continued through 1994. In 1994 AKCL was
released as GCL (GNU Common Lisp) under the GNU public library
license.
NOTE: GCL supports Tk bindings with Tcl 8 and Tk 8.
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby are shown below.
+ Simple Syntax
+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
+ Operator Overloading
+ Exception Handling
+ Iterators and Closures
+ Garbage Collection
+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby are shown below.
+ Simple Syntax
+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
+ Operator Overloading
+ Exception Handling
+ Iterators and Closures
+ Garbage Collection
+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension,
is a library that implements the Scheme language plus various
convenient facilities. It's designed so that you can link it
into an application or utility to make it extensible. Our
plan is to link this library into all GNU programs that call for
extensibility.
GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension,
is a library that implements the Scheme language plus various
convenient facilities. It's designed so that you can link it
into an application or utility to make it extensible. Our
plan is to link this library into all GNU programs that call for
extensibility.
ICI is a C-like, high level language originally developed by Tim Long
and placed into the public domain. ICI marries C's expression syntax,
control structures and overall feel, with a dynamic, garbage
collected, object-based, data model. Version 4 incorporates numerous
performance enhancements, refinements to existing features and new
features including native support for threads, a cleaner, more well
defined API for extension module authors and those embedding ICI
within other programs, and new documentation that is superior to
that provided in previous releases.
ICI is typically used as a scripting-like language in the fashion of
Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, TCL and other such languages. ICI can be
called from C and the language itself can be extended allowing
applications to provide domain specific functions, types and
operators for use in their ICI programs. Embedding within applications
allows application authors to make use of ICI's efficient object
system which provides many useful facilities.
ICI is in the public domain, there is no copyright on it.
Icon is a high-level programming language with extensive facilities for
processing strings and structures. Icon has several novel features,
including expressions that may produce sequences of results, goal-directed
evaluation that automatically searches for a successful result, and string
scanning that allows operations on strings to be formulated at a high
conceptual level.
The language is described in R. E. Griswold and M. T. Griswold, The
Icon Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
second edition, 1990.
For more information or assistance, contact:
Icon Project voice: (520) 621-6613
Department of Computer Science fax: (520) 621-4246
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210077 icon-project@cs.arizona.edu
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
U.S.A.
A compiler for the INTERCAL language, which has a syntax and
feature set differing considerably from all other programming
languages. This is the C-INTERCAL compiler, which compiles
INTERCAL to C, and then invokes cc as a backend, much like the
"f2c" Fortran compiler.
Malbolge is an esoteric language, named after the eighth circle of hell in the
Divina Commedia by Dante.
Two years were necessary to see the first software produced in this language.