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Kawa is an open source programming language created in 1996 by Per Bothner.

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Kawa is a language framework written in the programming language Java that implements the programming language Scheme, a dialect of Lisp, and can be used to implement other languages to run on the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a part of the GNU Project. The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee.. Read more on Wikipedia...


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$ java -jar /path/to/kawa/kawa.jar [optional arguments] ...

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