Chicken (Scheme implementation)

<p>Chicken (stylized as CHICKEN) is a <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a>, specifically a <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compiler</a> and <a href="/facts/Interpreter_(computing)/JB85fbyb">interpreter</a> which implement a <a href="/facts/Dialect_(computing)/cWTYbgWa">dialect</a> of the programming language <a href="/facts/Scheme_(programming_language)/0aGdf3SC">Scheme</a>, and which compiles Scheme <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> to standard <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a>. It is mostly <a href="/facts/R5RS/0aGdf3SC">R5RS</a> compliant and offers many extensions to the standard. The newer R7RS standard is supported through an extension <a href="/facts/Library_(computing)/xRzL3P7q">library</a>. Chicken is <a href="/facts/Free_and_open-source_software/1cHtjLCB">free and open-source software</a> available under a <a href="/facts/BSD_licenses/XLtmLp5x">BSD license</a>. It is implemented mostly in Scheme, with some parts in C for performance or to make embedding into C programs easier.
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Chicken (Scheme implementation) open-in-new

Chicken (Scheme implementation)