The Kawa Scheme language

Kawa is a general-purpose programming language that runs on the Java platform. It aims to combine:

It is an extension of the long-established Scheme language, which is in the Lisp family of programming languages. Kawa has many useful features.

Kawa is also a useful framework for implementing other programming languages on the Java platform. It has has many useful utility classes.

This documents version 2.1, updated 26 October 2015. See the summary of recent changes.

The Kawa tutorial is be useful to get stated, though it is woefully incomplete. It does link to some other more in-depth (but not Kawa-specific) Scheme tutorials.

For copyright information on the software and documentation, see License.

Various people and orgnizations have contributed to Kawa.

This package has nothing to do with the defunct Kawa commercial Java IDE.