Re: Logo baseline

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 10:14 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Guilers!
>

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.
>
>
That's true, "GNU extension language" is just part of its features right
now.
And the "extension language" can't define Guile anymore, because Guile is a
productive implementation of Scheme programming language,
a web development language, a system level scripting language, and a
platform to support several different dynamic languages.



> Thus, I’d propose changing the baseline.  Something that would describe
> what Guile is to me is:
>
>   GNU, fast, fun, functional
>
>
Although functional is just one of facinating features of Guile Scheme,
it's still a good selling point to introduce it to other people.



> What’s about you?  What’s Guile to you?  :-)
>
>
Guile is a modern Scheme implementation that can solve real problems in the
industry. There's a joke that Scheme is the only language that the number
of implementations
are more than the users. But I would say, Guile can help people to solve
real program in product level.
And as some people here may know, I've been always a big fan to treat Guile
as a platform for various language transpilers.
I don't know what's the proper slogan now, to me, Guile is more like a
hacking engine rather than a language.

Best regards.

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