About

Vuza is a functional programming language of the Scheme family with several interesting new features. It almost implements the R4RS standard and adds extensions such as a Lisp-like macro system, an easy way to embded and extend the language using C/C++, a powerful set of primitives for musical/sound operations and UI creation (such as the bindings to Csound and FLTK) and so on. Vuza also have some support for object oriented programming and matrix arithmetics.

A presentation paper on the language will be presented at the ICMC-SMC 2014 joint conference in Athens in September.

For known bugs see the Bugs section; for more information please see also the Examples and the F.A.Q. sections.  

Build and installation

Installation Instructions Vuza uses the autotools building system, so to build and install it from source code you can do the following:

./configure
make
sudo make install

If you want to add the readline support you must have the library installed; you can do this by typing:

./configure --enable-readline

To also bind the bindings for FLTK (vuztk) and Csound (vuzcsnd) you must have the libraries installed; the check is only done during compilation. To enable them type:

./configure --enable-vuztk --enable-vuzcsnd

The garbage collection and dynamic checkings are on by default, so the default configuration is:

./configure --enable-gc --enable-checkings 
			--disable-readline --disable-vuztk --disable-vuzcsnd