chicken: chicken (a practical and portable scheme system) chicken: chicken: CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces chicken: portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in chicken: progress) standards, and many extensions. It runs on Linux, OS X, chicken: Windows, many Unix flavours, and aims to be free, simple, portable, chicken: extensible, well documented, and actively supported. chicken: chicken: Scheme is a member of the Lisp family of languages. chicken: chicken: