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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: "Jean Crépeau" <crep1006@crep.dhs.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you earn money with Guile?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 23:31:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737nz3acx.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bce6da19-ba33-ed9f-3e1e-adfba58d6173@crep.dhs.org>

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Hi Jean,

Jean Crépeau writes:

> I used to work at a company called Avant! in California. Avant! was
> selling software (Apollo II and later Astro) which used an older version
> of guile (1.2 or 1.4, I can't remember which) that had been customized
> for the tool. Avant! made hundreds of millions selling those products,
> though customers were buying it more for its place and route technology
> than its interface language.

That sounds awesome!

And practically put, something like this, but with Guile 2.x, is a great
example of the user stories needed to spread Guile (along with the other
ones in this thread — I read them and they made me happy, but I didn’t
get to answer yet).

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-26 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03  9:32 How do you earn money with Guile? Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-06-03 17:33 ` Nala Ginrut
2016-07-12 20:44   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-06-03 17:57 ` Christopher M. Hobbs
2016-06-03 19:24   ` Tristan Colgate
2016-07-12 20:05     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-07-12 20:30   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-07-12 21:11   ` Amirouche Boubekki
2016-06-07  8:05 ` Jean Crépeau
2016-06-26 21:31   ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]

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