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From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd.moellmann@t-online.de
Subject: Re: Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile?
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:46:00 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020817.004600.120443800.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkn0rm69ry.fsf@glug.org>


>    Have you ever programmed in Guile/Scheme ?  How much?
> 
> check out http://www.glug.org/maint/ for ongoing travails...  also
> relevant to this list would be a google search for "gap-buffer.scm"
> and in the same directory edit.scm.  see gpgutils.scm for example
> usage of edit.scm (warning: not suitable for either scheme or elisp
> purists ;-).

LilyPond, a music typesetting program (www.lilypond.org), uses Guile.
While following the development of LilyPond I see that Guile itself
isn't a stable target yet: It simply happens too often that the
authors of LilyPond have to add some glue code to make it work with
different versions of Guile.


   Werner

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-16 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <86y9b8awuv.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org>
2002-08-16  9:34 ` Why do we spend time on Emacs on Guile? Kim F. Storm
2002-08-16 16:36   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-08-16 22:46     ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2002-08-17 23:28       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-08-16 16:52   ` D. Goel
2002-08-16 18:02   ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-17  4:50   ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-17 13:02     ` Sam Steingold
2002-08-23  7:02       ` Michael Sperber [Mr.  Preprocessor]

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