KAWA, THE JAVA-BASED SCHEME SYSTEM
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Kawa is an implementation of the Scheme programming language.
It is implemented in Java, and compiles Scheme into Java byte-codes.

The file kawa.txt (which was automatically generated from kawa.texi)
explains how to build, install, and use Kawa.
The file kawa.html conatins the same information in HTML format.

The file NEWS summarizes recent changes.

The file Compliance.html summarizes divergence from the R4RS.

Authors
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R. Alexander Milowski <alex@copsol.com> wrote and released
versions 0.1 and 0.2.

Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> re-wrote the evaluator to use byte
compilation, made many other changes, and released 0.3 and later versions.

If you have a problem or bug, for now send a report to the authors.
If there is demand, we will set up a mailing list.
Future announcements will be announced at least to comp.lang.scheme.
