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diff --git a/lang/scheme48/pkg-descr b/lang/scheme48/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 577e7adcf734..000000000000 --- a/lang/scheme48/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Scheme 48 is an implementation of the Scheme programming language as -described in the Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. -It is based on a compiler and interpreter for a virtual Scheme -machine. The name derives from our desire to have an implementation -that is simple and lucid enough that it looks as if it were written in -just 48 hours. We don't claim to have reached that stage yet; much -more simplification is necessary. - -Scheme 48 tries to be faithful to the upcoming Revised^5 Scheme -Report, providing neither more nor less in the initial user -environment. (This is not to say that more isn't available in other -environments; see below.) Support for numbers is weak: bignums are -slow and floating point is almost nonexistent (see description of -floatnums, below). DEFINE-SYNTAX, LET-SYNTAX, LETREC-SYNTAX, and -SYNTAX-RULES are supported, but not the rest of the Revised^4 Scheme -macro proposal. - -Notes for FreeBSD port: The external dynamic loading doesn't work -properly due in part to non-portable code and limited support by -FreeBSD for SUN dlfcn routines. Unless you need to load external -C code, this is a fine interpreter. - -Ported to FreeBSD by Josh MacDonald, <jmacd@uclink.berkeley.edu> |