Bigloo

Bigloo

Developer(s)	Manuel Serrano
Stable release	3.7a / September 27, 2011 (2011-09-27)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Programming language
License	GPL, LGPL
Website	www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/
Standard(s)	R5RS (mostly), several SRFI extensions, IEEE Scheme

Bigloo is an implementation of the Scheme programming language developed at the French IT research institute INRIA. Its orientation is towards providing tools for effective and diverse code generation that can match the performance of hand-written C or C++. The Bigloo system contains a Scheme compiler that can generate C code and JVM or .NET bytecode. As with other Lisp dialects, it contains an interpreter (also known as a read-eval-print loop).

Bigloo is a Scheme implementation devoted to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++) is usually required.

The hop web application engine and Roadsend PHP are written in Bigloo.

Libraries

• Biglook - a crossplatform GUI module that interfaces with GTK and Java Swing

Bigloo-lib

The Bigloo-lib project contains modules for:

• Regular Expressions
• MzScheme Compatibility
• iconv Character Set Conversion
• Extended Console Application support - This includes support for GNU Readline, and termios
• SQL - tested with MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
• XML - an interface to the Expat XML parser
• GTK

See also

• List of JVM languages

External links

• Bigloo home page
• Bigloo Online Documentation
• Bigloo Extensions and Tools