husk is a dialect of Scheme written in Haskell that adheres to the R⁵RS standard. Advanced R⁵RS features are provided including continuations, hygienic macros, and a full numeric tower.

husk may be used as either a stand-alone interpreter or as an extension language within a larger Haskell application. By closely following the R⁵RS standard, the intent is to develop a Scheme that is as compatible as possible with other R⁵RS Schemes. husk is mature enough for use in production applications, however it is not optimized for performance-critical applications.

Scheme is one of two main dialects of Lisp. Scheme follows a minimalist design philosophy: the core language consists of a small number of fundamental forms which may be used to implement other built-in forms. Scheme is an excellent language for writing small, elegant programs, and may also be used to write scripts or embed scripting functionality within a larger application.

Installation

husk may be installed using cabal - just run the following command:

cabal install husk-scheme

License

husk scheme is available under the MIT license.

Credits

husk scheme is developed by Justin Ethier.

The interpreter is based on code from the book Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours written by Jonathan Tang and hosted / maintained by Wikibooks.

For more information, please visit the project web site.