Larceny (Scheme implementation)

The Larceny Project is a set of computer programming languages, specifically Scheme implementations, using the Twobit optimizing Scheme compiler. Larceny is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or SPARC code, Petit Larceny is a Scheme to C compiler and Common Larceny is a Microsoft .NET compatible implementation running in the Common Language Runtime and generating Common Intermediate Language.

• Larceny is a research-quality implementation of Scheme compiler for the IA-32 (available since 1999).
• Petit Larceny is a portable implementation of Scheme compiler that compiles to C instead of machine code (available since June 2005).

Older versions (<0.98) included support for the SPARC architecture in Larceny, and for Microsoft's CLR (Common Language Runtime) in Common Larceny.

Larceny supports all major Scheme standards (R⁵RS, IEEE/ANSI, R⁶RS and R⁷RS. The Larceny software is open source and available online.

External links

• Larceny home page