From: Lee Thomas <leet22303be@gmail.com>
To: 57440@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57440: Guile manual has incorrect history on the name
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:32:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANYin9UY2kzpk4i7EFvo54DTp1AeFPkaqKBcRQLonJn8HmGxmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Early-Days.html isn't
correct where in the fourth paragraph it says "Jim Blandy suggested a new
name for GEL". It was actually me, as documented in the second paragraph
here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile#History Due to the Tcl Wars
some of the name suggestions were becoming offensive, especially to Dr.
Ousterhout, so I thought I would suggest something more positive. To my
astonishment, Tom Lord liked it and used it, over the objections of others.
I'm dying of cancer so soon it won't matter, and I was never a part of
Guile's inner circle anyway, so this isn't a truly important issue for me.
If it would ruffle political feathers to take credit from Jim then I'm fine
with leaving it as is, but I do feel responsibility to simply report it
here - especially before someone else does and asks why the manual and
Wikipedia don't match.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-26 21:32 Lee Thomas [this message]
2022-08-26 23:43 ` bug#57440: [patch] Guile manual has incorrect history on the name Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-08-27 3:43 ` Lee Thomas
2022-10-01 13:53 ` bug#57440: " Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-10 17:36 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-11-11 21:57 ` bug#57440: [patch] " Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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