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     TinyScheme would not exist if it wasn't for MiniScheme. I had just
     written the HTTP server for Ovrimos SQL Server, and I was lamenting the
     lack of a scripting language. Server-side Javascript would have been the
     preferred solution, had there been a Javascript interpreter I could
     lay my hands on. But there weren't. Perl would have been another solution,
     but it was probably ten times bigger that the program it was supposed to
     be embedded in. There would also be thorny licencing issues.
    
     So, the obvious thing to do was find a trully small interpreter. Forth
     was a language I had once quasi-implemented, but the difficulty of
     handling dynamic data and the weirdness of the language put me off. I then
     looked around for a LISP interpreter, the next thing I knew was easy to
     implement. Alas, the LeLisp I knew from my days in UPMC (Universite Pierre
     et Marie Curie) had given way to Common Lisp, a megalith of a language!
     Then my search lead me to Scheme, a language I knew was very orthogonal
     and clean. When I found Mini-Scheme, a single C file of some 2400 loc, I
     fell in love with it! What if it lacked floating-point numbers and
     strings! The rest, as they say, is history.
    
     Below  are the original credits. Don't email Akira KIDA, the address has
     changed.
    
     ---------- Mini-Scheme Interpreter Version 0.85 ----------

                coded by Atsushi Moriwaki (11/5/1989)

            E-MAIL :  moriwaki@kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

               THIS SOFTWARE IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 This software is completely free to copy, modify and/or re-distribute.
 But I would appreciate it if you left my name on the code as the author.

  This version has been modified by R.C. Secrist.

  Mini-Scheme is now maintained by Akira KIDA.

  This is a revised and modified version by Akira KIDA.
   current version is 0.85k4 (15 May 1994)

  Please send suggestions, bug reports and/or requests to:
        <SDI00379@niftyserve.or.jp>