SCAM (Scheme Compiler Atop Make) is a compiler for a string-based
Lisp/Scheme dialect. SCAM uses GNU Make 3.81 as its virtual machine. Each
SCAM executable file -- including the SCAM Compiler itself -- is a makefile
and a bash script. First invoked as a bash script, a SCAM program invokes
make to execute itself as a makefile.
SCAM supports arbitrary-precision floating point arithmetic.
For more information:
- A short introduction to SCAM.
- The SCAM language reference.
- Functions, macros, and special forms in SCAM.
- Any of the programs in the examples directory.
SCAM is a self-hosting compiler. The SCAM project consists of the SCAM
compiler sources and a "golden" compiler executable (at bin/scam) that is
used to compile them.
At the top level of the project tree, you can type make to compile the
SCAM compiler source. See the makefile for more details.