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The Kawa Scheme language

Kawa is a general-purpose programming language that runs on the Java
platform. It aims to combine:

  * the benefits of dynamic scripting languages (non-verbose code
    with less boiler-plate, fast and easy start-up, a REPL, no
    required compilation step); with

  * the benefits of traditional compiled languages (fast execution,
    static error detection, modularity, zero-overhead Java platform
    integration).

It is an extension of the long-established Scheme language, which is
in the Lisp family of programming languages. Kawa has many useful
features.

Kawa is also a useful framework for implementing other programming
languages on the Java platform. It has many useful utility classes.

This manual describes version 3.1.1, updated 16 January 2020. See the
summary of recent changes.

The Kawa tutorial is useful to get stated. While it is woefully
incomplete, it does link to some other more in-depth (but not
Kawa-specific) Scheme tutorials.

For copyright information on the software and documentation, see
License.

Various people and orgnizations have contributed to Kawa.

This package has nothing to do with the defunct Kawa commercial Java
IDE.

  * News - Recent Changes
  * Features
  * The Kawa Community
  * Getting and installing Kawa
  * Kawa Scheme Tutorial
  * Reference Documentation
  * Index
  * Table of Contents

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