Kawa (Scheme implementation)
Kawa is a language framework written in the programming language Java that implements the programming language Scheme, a dialect of Lisp, and can be used to implement other languages to run on the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a part of the GNU Project.
| Family | Lisp |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Per Bothner |
| Developer | The Kawa Community |
| First appeared | 10 June 1996 |
| Stable release | 3.1.1
/ 16 January 2020 (w/R7RS compatibility) |
| Implementation language | Java, Scheme |
| Platform | Java virtual machine |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| Lisp, Scheme | |
The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee.
Kawa is notable as one of the few programming languages with support for units of measure in the form of quantities.
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