Bee: an integrated development environment for the Scheme programming language

Abstract

The Bee is an integrated development environment for the Scheme programming language. It provides the user with a connection between Scheme and the C programming language, a symbolic debugger, a profiler, an interpreter, an optimizing compiler that delivers stand alone executables, a source file browser, a project manager, user libraries and online documentation. This article details the facilities of the Bee, its user interface, and presents an overview of the implementation of its main components.