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Chicken

Chicken is a compiler for the Scheme programming language that translates Scheme code into C, allowing it to leverage C's performance and portability. It supports both interpreted and compiled execution, facilitating efficient development and deployment of Scheme programs.

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Chicken was created in 2000 by Felix Winkelmann to provide a practical and efficient Scheme-to-C compiler. It aimed to combine the expressiveness of Scheme with the performance and portability of C, making it suitable for both development and deployment of high-performance applications.

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A Chicken expert must have strong proficiency in Scheme programming, a deep understanding of C for integration and performance tuning, experience with the Chicken Scheme compiler and its extensions, and familiarity with Unix-like operating systems for development and deployment.

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