From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?
Date: 08 Sep 2003 00:22:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wuckdysx.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF2E935008FB586@pop2.es.tisadm.net> (added by postmaster@netmail.tiscalinet.es)
Ricard Mira <ricardmm@tiscali.es> writes:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > As a point of history, being multi-lingual was _a_ goal, but certainly
> > not _the_ goal. RMS still highlights the multi-lingual goal in some
> > of his talks, but I think he is misplacing emphasis.
>
> It seems that the goal is to make Guile a *potential* multi-lingual
> environment which will allow people to implement languages as
> translators, making Guile an *actual* multi-lingual environment for
> extending programs. Is it right?
Yes. As far as I am concerned, I'll promise support for people that
want to write translators (support in the form of low-level stuff that
goes beyond Scheme, say), but I don't think that it is important for
Guile to have offer multiple somehow equivalent syntaxes/semantics.
Indeed, I would even say that putting the muli-lingual stuff at the
top of the feature list of Guile is dangerous. It is very easy to
fail in direct competition to Python, say. This woudn't do us any
good when we state Guile's reason for living as being multi-lingual
and I see the risk of failing as very real.
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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 [this message]
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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