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== History ==
'''ARS++''' has been developed in 2002 for the book ''Undiluted Programming'' (a description of the book is available on page [http://www.lambda-bound.de/book/engl/index.html]) to demonstrate '''ARS based programming''' in a real world context. ARS++ is used in the book to implement an ''A++ interpreter'' and  an ''XML Database System''. Even the ''implementation of ARS++ in C'' was used to demonstrate ARS based programmin  g.
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                                                                                                          <br> Principally the programming language Scheme would have been perfectly alright to be used for these demonstration programs if Scheme would include primitives supporting  network programming, database programming plus a few others required in this real world context. <br>
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The definition of the programming language Scheme does not include those primitives however, leaving this issue up to the implementors of the language. The consequence is that there exist ''many Scheme implementations, almost none of them covering all areas essential for real application programs.<br>''.
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This is the '''historical background  '' ''that gave birth to the development of ARS++''.

A few weeks ago the author of the referenced book  discovered a Scheme implementation that would have been very well suited to serve as a  language for developing  the case studies for 'Undiluted Programming'.  This ''Scheme implementation'' is called '''Gauche''' and is available for download in the internet on the following page [http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/].

== ARS++ explained by its name ==
The name '''ARS++''', being an acronym for '''ARS + Scheme + Extensions''', indicates that ARS++ has a lot to do with [[Scheme_programming_language |Scheme ]] but that it is ''not equivalent to Scheme''.

(contracted; show full)called an ARS++ language (ignoring the difference in the
nucleus which practically is only noticed by the programmer
when using the special form ''define'').

== See also ==
* [[Ars_based_programming |ARS based programming]]
* [[A_plusplus |A++]]
* [[Educational_programming_language |Educational programming language]]