Bug#818130: ITP: kawa -- general-purpose programming language of the lisp family, that runs on the Java platform

[Andrea Bernardini <andrebask@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andrea Bernardini <andrebask@gmail.com>

* Package name    : kawa
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
* URL             : http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
* License         : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: Java, Scheme
  Description     : general-purpose programming language of the lisp family, that runs on the Java platform

Kawa aims to combine:

* the benefits of dynamic scripting languages
  (non-verbose code with less boiler-plate,
  fast and easy start-up, a REPL, no required
  compilation step); with

* the benefits of traditional compiled languages
  (fast execution, static error detection,
  modularity, zero-overhead Java platform integration).

It is an extension of the long-established Scheme
language, which is in the Lisp family of programming
languages.
Kawa is also a useful framework for implementing other
programming languages on the Java platform. It has many
useful utility classes.


Maintaining this package shouldn't be hard as it compiles
and runs on debian without quirks and tricks, with few
dependencies. I have been a contributor and user of the
project.