Mini-Scheme (which goes by the filenames
+ minischeme and miniscm) is at once one
+ of the tiniest and earliest Scheme implementations. Its obscure
+ beginnings and the several independent forks started in the
+ decades since have led to a confusing family tree which this page
+ tries to untangle.
The original author of Mini-Scheme is mathematician Atsushi + Moriwaki from Kyoto University. After he stopped working on the + program, his compatriot Akira Kida maintained it for five + years.
+Information about these early versions is found in the
+ README file of version 0.85k4. The file says the
+ program is based on an article SCHEME Interpreter in Common
+ Lisp which was published in Japan as an appendix of T.
+ Matsuda & K. Saigo, Programming of LISP, archive No 5
+ (1987) p6 - p42.
| Release date | +Maintainer | +Version number | +
|---|---|---|
| "11/5/1989" | +Atsushi Moriwaki | +0.85 | +
| 1989-11-14 | +Akira Kida | +0.85k1 | +
| 1989-11-28 | +Akira Kida | +0.85k2 | +
| 1989-11-30 | +Akira Kida | +0.85k3 | +
| 1994-05-17 | +Akira Kida | +0.85k4 | +
Available from t3x.org.
Hosted at the SourceForge
+ project minischeme
Hosted at the GitHub repository
+ catseye/minischeme
The well-known implementation TinyScheme started off as a + Mini-Scheme fork but has been refactored and extended so much + that the name was changed.
+Releases of the various Mini-Scheme forks are archived at + files.scheme.org using a + file naming convention which includes the maintainer's handle as + well as a version number or release date.
+