language (Elk) A Scheme interpreter by Oliver Laumann

[email protected] and Carsten Bormann

[email protected] of the Technical University ofBerlin. Elk was designed to be used as a general extension

language. New types and primitive procedures can easily

be added. It has first-class environments, dynamic-wind,

fluid-let, macros, autoloading and a dump. It

provides interfaces to Xlib, Xt and various widget sets;

dynamic loading of extensions and object files; almost all

artificial limitations removed; generational/incrementalgarbage collector; Unix system call extensions; Records

(structures) and bit strings.