The Concurrent Schemer

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Joseph Wayne Norton

Authors: Joseph Wayne Norton ([email protected]).

"The Concurrent Schemer" (CSCM) is an implementation of the Scheme programming language built on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine. CSCM combines the sequential programming model of Scheme with the concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant programming model of Erlang. Simply put, the goals of CSCM are concurrent Scheme, distributed Scheme, and fault-tolerant Scheme.

Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at MIT. Scheme was designed to have exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles, find convenient expression in Scheme.

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable, soft, real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Erlang's run-time system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory and is maintained as an open-source project and community.

The default language is Scheme R7RS. The default virtual machine is Erlang/OTP 17.0 or higher.

For further information, see https://github.com/the-concurrent-schemer.

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