SCM
1.3: Authors
- Aubrey Jaffer (jaffer@ai.mit.edu)
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Most of SCM.
- Radey Shouman
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Arrays.
gsubrs, compiled closures, and records.
- Jerry D. Hedden
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Real and Complex functions. Fast mixed type arithmetics.
- Hugh Secker-Walker
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Syntax checking and memoization of special forms by evaluator. Storage
allocation strategy and parameters.
- George Carrette
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Siod, written by George Carrette, was the starting point for SCM.
The major innovations taken from Siod are the evaluator's use of the
C-stack and being able to garbage collect off the C-stack
(see Garbage Collection).
There are many other contributors to SCM. They are acknowledged in the
file `ChangeLog', a log of changes that have been made to scm.