Bob is a suite of implementations of the Scheme language in Python. It currently includes:
- A Scheme interpreter
- An implementation of a stack-based virtual machine called the "Bob VM"
- A compiler from Scheme to Bob VM bytecode
- A serializer and deserializer for Bob VM bytecode
In addition, Bob comes with another version of the VM, implemented in C++. It's called "BareVM". BareVM is an optional component - Bob is fully usable as an implementation of Scheme in pure Python.
There's some documentation in the doc/ directory in the source.
Getting Started.
The following diagram describes Bob:
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