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Reformatting discussions.
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| 2 | I would suggest changing the description (the first paragraph) to the following: |
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| 4 | > CHICKEN is a platform for developing applications in the Scheme programming language. |
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| 5 | > It consists of the following programs: |
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| 7 | > ; {{csc}} : A compiler that translates Scheme source files into C, which in turn can be fed to a C-compiler to generate a standalone executable. This principle, which is used by several existing compilers, achieves high portability because C is implemented on nearly all available platforms. The generated C code is fully tail-recursive. |
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| 9 | > ; {{csi}} : An interpreter that can be used as a scripting environment or for testing programs before compilation. |
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| 11 | > ; Eggs : A collection of contributed extensions greatly extending the application programming interface available to Scheme programmers and some infrastructure programs (eg. {{chicken-setup}}) to simplify their management. |
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| 13 | I propose these changes because I feel that Chicken is much more than just a Scheme -> C compiler, which the paragraph, as it is, seems to suggest. |
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| 14 | Also, I want to emphasize that one of the strengths of Chicken might be the great number of extensions. Hmm, perhaps {{chicken}} should be listed there somewhere. |
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| 16 | However, since this is rather big a change, I thought I wouldn't apply it myself but just suggest it and let Felix decide... he should, after all, know better than I what CHICKEN really is. I dare not contradict him. :-) |
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