From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?y
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:34:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16214.6192.83913.257509@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0309021403580.65751@helena.whitefang.com>
tmh@whitefang.com writes:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Ricard Mira wrote:
>
> > But above all, we plan to make Guile a
> > *multi-lingual* environment, which will allow users to extend programs
> > using their favorite extension languages.
>
> Two quick gripes :)
>
> (1) Use "Above all" instead of "But above all" (better grammar).
>
> (2) Is this still a viable goal for guile? As a software
> developer of a project that is using guile for an extension
> language I'm beginning to think its less work to maintain
> bindings to other languages like Perl and Python than it is to
> write a translator from those languages to Scheme.
>
> I'm not trying to troll since I do realize this may be a sour
> point, but do the guile maintainers feel the work in writing
> translators is justified when its less of a hassle to simply
> provide bindings to other languages on a per application
> basis?
Regardless of that goal (which IMNSHO is not viable), I think that
vaporware should not be documented. Since usable translators do not
exist, the multi-lingual aspect should not be in the documentation
(yet)
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-09-02 16:47 ` What is Guile? Tom Lord
2003-09-03 20:43 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-09-03 22:52 ` Tom Lord
2003-09-03 23:12 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-09-04 9:43 ` tomas
2003-10-07 17:11 ` Marius Vollmer
[not found] ` <3EF2E935008FB586@pop2.es.tisadm.net>
2003-09-07 22:22 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-02 18:08 ` What is Guile?y Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-03 16:34 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2003-09-02 21:03 ` What is Guile? Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-02 21:59 ` Kevin Ryde
[not found] ` <3EF2F7DF008E4D8D@pop3.es.tisadm.net>
2003-09-07 12:38 ` Jeff Read
2003-09-08 17:14 ` Paul Jarc
2003-09-08 18:32 ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-08 21:39 ` Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-09 0:33 ` Jeff Read
2003-09-09 2:43 ` Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-09 3:25 ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-09-09 13:20 ` Dale P. Smith
2003-09-09 18:46 ` Andreas Rottmann
2003-09-10 11:55 ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-07 22:00 ` Marius Vollmer
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