From: Jeff Read <bitwize@snet.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:38:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030907123802.GA4490@strike.parodycheck.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF2F7DF008E4D8D@pop3.es.tisadm.net>
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Ricard Mira wrote:
>
> Maybe I emphasized the multi-lingual aspect too much, but I think we
> should emphasize it a bit, since it seems the fundamental feature in
> the design of Guile. (But we should do that in a grammatically
> correct way -- thanks for the correction, Thamer!).
>
It seems as if nowadays when people want multilingual, they go with .NET/Mono and MSIL, or alternatively, JVM, and be done with it. These two environments also have the advantage of being completely integrated with host applications in their native IL -- no bindings or wrappers required.
I use Guile extensively and never deal with any language except Scheme. Maybe I'm missing something in its engineering, but I think Guile's greatest strength is as an excellent workhorse Scheme, suited to tasks where others might use Perl or Python. Guile and GIMP together are the greatest argument against Scheme's propellerheadedness, the prevailing notion that it is suited only for academic use.
Am I really off the mark here?
--
Jeffrey T. Read
"I fight not for me but the blind babe Justice!" --Galford
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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
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 [this message]
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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