From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Bartlett Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What is Guile? Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062626119 32652 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2003 21:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 03 23:55:17 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 19ufav-0003Cj-00 for ; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:55:17 +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 19ufTF-0005U0-AN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uLaO-0002Id-Ra for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19uL3A-0001mr-Ed for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.122.16.48] (helo=mx1.eskimo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19uIJU-0003ZU-GB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eskimo.com (johnnyb@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25613; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:03:09 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (johnnyb@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA25662; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:03:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: johnnyb owned process doing -bs Original-To: Ricard Mira 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:2744 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2744 What languages does Guile currently support? Last I checked it was pretty much just scheme. has anyone added languages? Is the interface to add and use other languages documented? Jon On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Ricard Mira wrote: > Some time ago, I participated in the discussion about the > reorganization of the Guile documentation. I have been thinking about > this and discussing via private email with Max Techter (who had > proposed to apply domain analysis). My conclusion is that we must > understand Guile better before trying to reorganize its documentation. > > So my strategy would be to prepare something like a domain dictionary > (which is a part of domain analysis) but integrated into the > documentation (to avoid wasted work). We could achieve that by > improving the definitions of important things, starting with the > definition of Guile itself. > > The "What is Guile?" node in the Guile Reference Manual contains the > main definition of Guile. I would like to make it more structured, > because I think it is very important for the definition of Guile to > explain its fundamental features in an easily understandable way. > Later on, we could improve (or create) definitions for other important > things, and put them into subnodes. > > Here is my proposal: > > --------- > > 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. > > Basically, Guile is an *interpreter* that implements the powerful yet > simple Scheme programming language adding many practical features to > it. Further, it is the GNU standard for *extensibility*: we provide > it as a C library which developers can easily incorporate into C > programs running on the GNU system, so that users can extend all those > programs in a similar way. But above all, we plan to make Guile a > *multi-lingual* environment, which will allow users to extend programs > using their favorite extension languages. > > * Menu: > > * Scheme Interpreter:: > * Extensibility Standard:: > * Multi-lingual Environment:: > > > _______________________________________________ > Guile-devel mailing list > Guile-devel@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel > _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel