Kawa - Summary

This software is part of the GNU Project.

Kawa is: <ul><li>A framework written in Java for implementing high-level and ynamic languages, compling them into Java bytecodes.</li><li>An implementation of <a href=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/"http://www. ... hemers.org/">Scheme</a>, which is in the Lisp family of programming languages. Kawa is a featureful dialect in its own right, and additionally provides very useful integration with Java. It can be used as a “scripting language?, but includes a compiler and all the benefits of a “real? programming language, including optional static typing.</li><li>Implementations of other programming languages, including <a href=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/"http://www.gnu.or ... e/qexo/index.html">XQuery (Qexo)</a>
and <a href=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/"http://JEmacs. ... urceforge.net/">Emacs Lisp JEmacs)</a>.</li></ul>

Registration Date: Wed 11 Apr 2001 03:00:28 PM UTC
License: Other license - GNU GPL, plus exception (no restrictions if code used unchanged).
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable