From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:43:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030904094312.GA517@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309021647.JAA27864@morrowfield.regexps.com>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:47:53AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
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>
>
> > From: Ricard Mira <ricardmm@tiscali.es>
>
> > What is Guile?
>
> > Guile is the GNU *multi-lingual extensibility interpreter*. The
> > goal of the Guile project is to give users a choice of extension
> > language.
>
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> As a point of history, being multi-lingual was _a_ goal, but certainly
> not _the_ goal. [rest deleted]
Very well put. I think parts of this text deserve to be put
on an historical comment to the docs. They express quite well
the difficulties Guile is having now.
Thanks, Tom
-- tomas
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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 [this message]
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
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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