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Samuel Petit
Samuel Petit () (1594 – 1653) was a French Huguenot pastor, known as a classical scholar and orientalist.
Life.
From Nîmes, the son of the pastor François Petit of Saint-Ambroix, and Noémi Ollivier, he studied oriental languages at Geneva from 1610 to 1612. He became professor of Greek at the Collège des Arts at Nîmes in 1615, and pastor there in the same year, a position he held for the rest of his life. He was principal at the Collège
Larceny (Scheme implementation)
Larceny is an implementation of the Scheme programming language built around the Twobit optimizing compiler. Larceny offers several back-ends able to target native x86 and ARMv7 code. Petit Larceny is also available and emits C source code, which can then be further compiled to native code with an ordinary C compiler.
Older versions (<0.98) included support for the SPARC architecture in Larceny, and for Microsoft's Common Language Runtime via Common Larceny.
Larceny supports all major Scheme standards (RRS,