tool: Elk (Extension Language Kit)

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Language:	Scheme
Version:	3.0
Parts:	interpreter, dynamically-loadable libraries, run-time, documentation, examples.
Author:	Oliver Laumann <net@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Location:	http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/elk ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/devel_tools/elk-3.0.tar.gz europe: ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/programming/languages/scheme/elk/elk-3.0.tar.gz
Description:	Elk is a Scheme implementation designed as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++. Elk is also useful as a stand-alone Scheme implementation, in particular as a platform for rapid prototyping of X11-based Scheme programs.
Conformance:	R^4RS
Reference:	Oliver Laumann and Carsten Bormann, Elk: The Extension Language Kit, USENIX Computing Systems, vol 7, no 4, 1994.
Features:	Full incremental, dynamic loading on many platforms Freezing of interpreter/application into executable file C/C++ programmer's interface for language interoperability Scheme bindings for X11 Xlib, Xt, Athena and Motif widgets UNIX interface (not restricted to POSIX) debugger, bitstrings, records, regular expressions stop-and-copy and generational incremental garbage collector 230+ pages of documentation (troff and PostScript)
Ports:	numerous UNIX platforms (see MACHINES in the distribution).
Status:	Elk was first published in 1989.
Announcements:	comp.lang.scheme
Updated:	1995/08

language: Scheme

category: dynamic foreign functions summary, or expanded.

category: educational summary, or expanded.

category: embeddable summary, or expanded.

category: glue summary, or expanded.

category: graphic user interface support summary, or expanded.

category: lisp family summary, or expanded.