From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile history: your input needed! Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:34:49 +0000 Message-ID: <49dd78620811201634o5635f191w9de3ce26fc79ec71@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227227707 27159 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2008 00:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user To: "Andy Wingo" Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 01:36:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L3K0G-0004hX-5x for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:36:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3Jz7-0002hN-1Q for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3Jz2-0002fp-Dw for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3Jz1-0002fF-JG for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41107 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3Jz1-0002fC-GU for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.159]:35710) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3Jz1-0000k0-7K for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id y22so1006717pof.1 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:34:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=P1BTXTDZ6tpmPG0w1IncawwO3nukpks0ni4hM5kIHyQ=; b=uQRmdHUWdZLD/SMZMsg+aNd1LGagAyp+oR12PmdZGKDgWoC2vK+i9y5VX4Dy3j36DX U06NO3PSAnwPdvMWbBCVPFrQXI54NbCp4MBjqP+CcOOdLCtq5aJ+KsBMxJUBMQ7wqowf DJhsVykq5IaoUSis3IcIEq6qtLOYyqUpAOQdc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ICob8/QdLc6PZ9MDzFzKlOI57BVcd56QTuNuTmlFJ2HlWFwchCOhfTszXydCf9NMLu aUdMWXxiIvoQ7qmizaD3pNpJ10Xxl8PyuXGKstLWah7KzPorZ7FWww8r/WAKwrBBWQ7R Ijp+2e69c+Wvb0oJ+Z2R4iXw+V5bKTJE51pC8= Original-Received: by 10.141.123.4 with SMTP id a4mr1528353rvn.273.1227227689537; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:34:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.140.199.14 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:34:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6951 Archived-At: 2008/11/20 Andy Wingo : > Hey Guilers! > > Many (most?) of you have been at this guile thing for longer than I > have, some of you from the very beginning. While doing some > reorganizations to the manual to get the VM docs in [0], I realized that > a big missing piece of our public narrative is our history. Apologies for not saying this when you raised this before, but to be honest I'm not much bothered about Guile's history. How does it help us (Guile developers and users) to add this to the manual? (And I'm especially bored of hearing about the old tcl war yet again...) I hope this isn't too prickly; a better person would have said this better, I'm sure. I suspect you actually have good reasons for thinking that this narrative will help Guile's future - so could you flesh those out a bit? Regards, (and now really off to bed....) Neil