JazzScheme

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License

JazzScheme is released under a dual Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 or GNU General Public License v2 or later . You can choose whichever license you prefer.

Roots

Jazz borrows ideas from the following languages :
  • Scheme for its clean design and flexibility
  • Common Lisp for its rich library and many great concepts
  • Java for its simple object system (but adds many missing features)
  • Visual Basic (yes even VB!) for its rapid development environment

Paradigms

Jazz supports in a unified and coherent approach the following paradigms :
  • Functional programming
  • Generic programming
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Interface-oriented programming
  • Dynamic programming
  • Static programming