Re: Logo baseline

[Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>]

On 1/18/20 6:08 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guilers!
>
> The Guile logo has this “GNU extension language” baseline.  As Guile 3
> came out, this baseline felt odd to me, not quite corresponding to the
> way I see Guile.
>
> Clearly, Guile is still an extension language, with many great
> applications (Gnucash, Lepton-EDA, OpenCog, GDB, etc.), and I’m sure
> libguile is here to stay.  Yet, to me, “extension language” does not
> accurately capture what Guile today allows for and what people have been
> doing with it; since 2.0, it’s more than an extension language, even
> more so with the performance afforded by Guile 3.
>
> Thus, I’d propose changing the baseline.  Something that would describe
> what Guile is to me is:
>
>    GNU, fast, fun, functional
>
> What’s about you?  What’s Guile to you?  :-)
>
> Ludo’.
To me "fast, fun, functional" does not distinguish guile very much.

I'll throw this out, though I don't think this is that good either:

Guile is GNU's functional, high-performance, systems programming 
implementation.

FWIW, I still look to guile for tool extension and integration.

Matt