Lee Thomas <leet22303be@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

I’m sorry to hear that. Thank you for taking up this even now! And thank
you for taking part in Guile.

I wish you lots of strength.

> , 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.

I created a patch that does the change and references it. From the
history it looks like this part has been written in one go back then and
did not change, so it possibly was just a mis-remembering.

The patch:


Best wishes,
Arne
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