JScheme: (http://jscheme.sourceforge.net)

• Powerful:
  • almost all R4RS Scheme (partial call/cc, immutable strings)
  • plus Objects, Threads and Exception Handling
• Lightweight:
  • SYNTAX S-expressions + Java literal syntax
  • SEMANTICS about 20 special forms:
    quote, begin, if, or, and, set!, define, lambda, cond, let, let*, letrec, case, quasiquote, tryCatch, define-macro, define-method, ...
  • JAVA ACCESS Javadot notation (next slide)
• Small:
  • 7200 lines of Java and 800 lines of Scheme
  • 150KB jar file
  • 23MB of java libraries (8128 classes)