From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thamer Al-Harbash Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What is Guile?y Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net> (added by postmaster@netmail.tiscalinet.es) NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062603340 30746 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2003 15:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 03 17:35:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19uZfW-0005OG-00 for ; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:35:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19uZfG-0007AC-Fa for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uHi7-0002vj-1r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uG2P-0003t3-Tm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.254.175.50] (helo=helena.whitefang.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.22) id 19uFZn-0005UA-O1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 67861 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2003 18:08:38 -0000 Original-Received: from helena.whitefang.com (216.254.175.50) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2003 18:08:38 -0000 X-X-Sender: shadows@helena.whitefang.com Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net> (added by postmaster@netmail.tiscalinet.es) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2736 On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Ricard Mira wrote: > But above all, we plan to make Guile a > *multi-lingual* environment, which will allow users to extend programs > using their favorite extension languages. Two quick gripes :) (1) Use "Above all" instead of "But above all" (better grammar). (2) Is this still a viable goal for guile? As a software developer of a project that is using guile for an extension language I'm beginning to think its less work to maintain bindings to other languages like Perl and Python than it is to write a translator from those languages to Scheme. I'm not trying to troll since I do realize this may be a sour point, but do the guile maintainers feel the work in writing translators is justified when its less of a hassle to simply provide bindings to other languages on a per application basis? BTW my thanks go to Kevin Ryde for stepping up and doing all the doco work. -- Thamer Al-Harbash GPG Key fingerprint: D7F3 1E3B F329 8DD5 FAE3 03B1 A663 E359 D686 AA1F "HLAGHLHALUAG (KTHANX)" _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel