Focus
Chicken's focus is immediately clear from its tagline: "A practical and portable Scheme system".
Chicken's main focus is the practical application of Scheme for writing "real-world" software. Scheme is well known for its use in computer science curricula and programming language experimentation, but it hasn't seen much use in business and industry. Chicken's community has produced a large set of libraries for performing a variety of tasks. The Chicken wiki (the software running it is also a Chicken program) also contains a list of software that people have written in Chicken.
Chicken's other goal is to be portable. By compiling to portable C (like Gambit and Bigloo), programs written in Chicken can be compiled for common popular platforms like Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like systems as well as Windows and Haiku. It also has built-in support for cross-compilation of programs and extensions, which allows it to be used on various embedded platforms.
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“Why is it so difficult—so degradingly difficult—to bring the notion of Time into mental focus and keep it there for inspection? What an effort, what fumbling, what irritating fatigue!”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
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