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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Extension Language Kit''' ('''ELK''') is a [[free software|free]] [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] implementation which is embeddable in [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] programs, but can also be used as a stand-alone Scheme interpreter. It is available under a custom permissive license<ref name=COPYING>{{cite web|last1=Hocevar|first1=Sam|title=COPYING|url=http://sam.zoy.org/elk/COPYING|website=Sam Hocevar's homepage|accessdate=28 May 2015|ref=license}}</ref> for any use, commercial or noncommercial.<br />
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Elk was written by Oliver Laumann and Carsten Bormann to provide an Extension Language for the development of large C++-based systems such as the [[Open Document Architecture|ODA]] document editor ISOTEXT<ref>{{cite web | author= Jonathan Rees| title= Scheme implementations| url= https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/scheme/doc/notes/scmimpls.txt | year= 1991 | accessdate=2009-06-11}}<br />
</ref> and the videoconferencing system TELES.VISION.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Elk: The Extension Language Kit | author = Oliver Laumann and Carsten Bormann | journal = USENIX Computing Systems | year = 1994 | volume = 7 | issue = 4 }}</ref> It was inspired by the Lisp interpreter in [[Emacs]] and has in turn helped inspire developers of other dynamic language interpreters such as Matz' [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] Interpreter.<br />
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In 2005 [[Sam Hocevar]] became the current maintainer of the Elk scheme project, merging contributed patches and fixing known bugs.<br />
However, as of October 2024, the Elk webpage has been blanked, and Hocevar has not responded to queries about the status of the project or whether the site will be brought back.<ref name="Elk scheme site">{{Citation | url = http://sam.zoy.org/elk/ | access-date = 2024-10-19 | title = Elk webpage }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://sam.zoy.org/elk/ Elk home page]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061025182528/http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Work/schememultimedia.pdf Elk Scheme Extensions for Multimedia Programming]<br />
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