Pre-Scheme is a low-level dialect of Scheme, designed for systems programming
with higher-level abstractions. For example, the Scheme48 virtual machine is
written in Pre-Scheme. Pre-Scheme is a particularly interesting alternative to
C for many systems programming tasks, because not only does it operate at about
the same level as C, but it also may be run in a regular high-level Scheme
development with no changes to the source, without resorting to low-level stack
munging with tools such as gdb. Pre-Scheme also supports two extremely
important high-level abstractions of Scheme: macros and higher-order, anonymous
functions. Richard Kelsey's Pre-Scheme compiler, based on his PhD research on
transformational compilation, compiles Pre-Scheme to efficient C, applying
numerous intermediate source transformations in the process.
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