Bigloo is a programming language, an implementation of the language Scheme, a dialect of the language Lisp. It is developed at the French IT research institute French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). It is oriented toward 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 Java virtual machine (JVM) or .NET Framework (.NET) bytecode. As with other Lisp dialects, it contains an interpreter, also termed a read-eval-print loop (REPL). It is free and open-source software. The run-time system and libraries are released under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The compiler and programming tools are released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).

Bigloo
ParadigmsMulti-paradigm: functional, procedural, meta
FamilyLisp
Designed byManuel Serrano
DeveloperINRIA
First appeared1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Stable release
4.4c-4 / 4 January 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-04)
Typing disciplineStrong, dynamic, latent
ScopeLexical
PlatformARM, IA-32, x86-64; PowerPC, Alpha
OSCross-platform: Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX
LicenseGPL, LGPL
Websitewww-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo
Influenced by
Lisp, Scheme

"Bigloo is a Scheme implementation devoted to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++) is usually required."[2]

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

Libraries

edit

Bigloo-lib

edit

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

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Bigloo homepage — Features". Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  2. ^ "Bigloo homepage". Inria Sophia-Antipolis. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. ^ "Biglook". Archived from the original on 2007-05-21.
edit