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<h1>Kali Scheme Revival</h1>
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Kali Scheme is currently an abandoned? project started by Nec Research
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Institute.
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It is based upon <a href="http://s48.org/">Scheme
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48</a> . Currently the active
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development branch can be found at the
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arch repository. At this time it is recommened for you to use the
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stable version in the tarball. If you would
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like to contribute contact me at zitterbewegung (at) gmail (dot) com or
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on <a href="//libera.chat/">libera</a>
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in <code>#scheme</code>.</p>
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<h1>What is Kali Scheme?</h1>
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Kali Scheme is a distributed implementation of Scheme that permits
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efficient transmission of higher-order objects such as closures and
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continuations. The integration of distributed communication
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facilities within a higher-order programming language engenders a
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number of new abstractions and paradigms for distributed computing.
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Among these are user-specified load-balancing and migration policies
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for threads, incrementally-linked distributed computations, and
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parameterized client-server applications. Kali Scheme supports
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concurrency and communication using first-class
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procedures and continuations. It integrates procedures and
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continuations
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into a message-based distributed framework that allows any Scheme
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object
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(including code vectors) to be sent and received in a message. Some of
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the applications and implementation techniques we have looked at using
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Kali Scheme include: </p>
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<p></p>
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<dl>
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<dd> User-level load balancing
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and migration. </dd>
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<dd> Incremental distributed
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linking of code objects. </dd>
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<dd> Parameterized client-server
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applications. </dd>
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<dd> Long-lived parallel
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computations. </dd>
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<dd> Distributed data mining. </dd>
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<dd> Executable content in
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messages over wide-area networks (e.g. the
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World-Wide Web) </dd>
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</dl>
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<h2>Related papers</h2>
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Kali Scheme is described in
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<a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cejtin95higherorder.html">Higher-Order
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Distributed Objects
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</a>,
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, September 1995.
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</p>
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<p>Papers on Kali Scheme and
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related
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topics can be found <a
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href="http://fifalde.merseene.nu/pub/kali/papers/">
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here</a>. (Note
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this link is broken. I can't find this part of the website.)
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<h2>Availability</h2>
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<p>The current release of Kali can be downloaded via HTTP at
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<a href="//files.scheme.org/kali-0.52.2.tar.gz"><code>kali-0.52.2.tar.gz</code></a>.</p>
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<h2>A depiction of the goddess Kali</h2>
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<p><img src="KaliNepal1920.jpg" alt="Picture of Kali"></a></p>
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