From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What is Guile?y Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:34:56 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16214.6192.83913.257509@localhost.localdomain> References: <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net> Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062662753 15715 80.91.224.253 (4 Sep 2003 08:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 10:05:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19up7n-0007Vq-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:05:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19up6s-0002A8-7y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 04:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uafL-0005Xb-IQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uael-00052I-28 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19uae4-0004NO-Ah for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:38:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.127.138] (helo=smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19uaaw-0003tz-Ti for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain.xs4all.nl (byrd.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h83GYtO0042069; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:34:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Thamer Al-Harbash In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2746 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2746 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel