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Owl Lisp is a purely functional dialect of Scheme. It is based on the
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applicable subset of R7RS standard, extending it mainly with threads and data
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structures necessary for purely functional operation. Owl can be used on most
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UNIX-like systems, such as Linux, BSDs and OS X. Programs are typically
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compiled via C to standalone binaries, so Owl isn't needed to run programs
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written in it.
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Owl project originally got started both as an attempt to extend R5RS Scheme
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with some necessary features, such as threads and modules, and as an experiment
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on how being purely functional influences the runtime and use of an applicative
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order purely functional language. While things have been added to Scheme, Owl
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tries to keep the core language as simple as possible.
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Implementationwise the goal was to get a small portable system which could be
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used to ship programs easily. This is currently accomplished by using a small
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register-based virtual machine, which can be extended with program-specific
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instructions to reduce interpretive overhead.
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