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title: "Oaklisp"
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Oaklisp is a message based portable object-oriented Scheme developed by Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter while Computer Science PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University.  Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax.  It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations, and a facility for dynamic binding.
Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.


== References ==

Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter (November 1986). "Oaklisp: An object-oriented Scheme with first-class types" (PDF). ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 21 (11): 30–7. doi:10.1145/960112.28701.
Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter (May 1988). "Oaklisp: an object-oriented dialect of Scheme". LISP and Symbolic Computation. 1 (1): 39–51. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.13.8118. doi:10.1007/BF01806175.
Barak A. Pearlmutter and Kevin J. Lang (1991). "The Implementation of Oaklisp". In Peter Lee (ed.). Topics in Advanced Language Implementation. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. pp. 189–215. ISBN 978-0-262-12151-4.


== External links ==
Oaklisp homepage