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[<img src="docs/images/cyclone-logo-04-header.png" alt="cyclone-scheme">](http://justinethier.github.com/cyclone)
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Cyclone is an experimental Scheme-to-C compiler that uses the [Cheney on the MTA](http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html) technique to implement full tail recursion, continuations, and generational garbage collection.
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Getting Started
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If you are installing Cyclone on your machine for the first time use [cyclone-bootstrap](https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone-bootstrap) to build a set of binaries.
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After installing you can run the `cyclone` command to compile a single Scheme file, and the `icyc` command to start an interactive interpreter.
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Documentation
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For more information about the Scheme language implemented by Cyclone, see the [R<sup>7</sup>RS Scheme Specification](http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki).
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The [features](FEATURES.md) page lists what has been implemented so far.
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The [development](docs/Development.md) page contains instructions for hacking on Cyclone.
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References
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- [CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, Part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.](http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html), by Henry Baker
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- [CHICKEN Scheme](http://www.call-cc.org/)
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- [Chibi Scheme](https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme)
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- [Compiling Scheme to C with closure conversion](http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-scheme-to-c/), by Matt Might
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- [Lisp in Small Pieces](http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html), by Christian Queinnec
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- [R<sup>5</sup>RS Scheme Specification](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/)
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- [R<sup>7</sup>RS Scheme Specification](http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki)
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- [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html), by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
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- [The 90 minute Scheme to C compiler](http://churchturing.org/y/90-min-scc.pdf), by Marc Feeley
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License
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Copyright (C) 2014 [Justin Ethier](http://github.com/justinethier).
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Cyclone is available under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
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