From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Trying guile as an extention language for a 'real world' product Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:34:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87oceop52y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20100703053651.GA13073@yeeloong> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278196505 4289 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2010 22:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 22:35:05 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 04 00:35:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVBIe-0007g5-CC for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVBId-0001dr-QZ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47241 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OVBIY-0001dM-If for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVBIX-00013P-4v for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVBIW-00012x-Vo for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVBIU-0007eI-Cr for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:34:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 Messidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uXoOxAE6QYh4cMxHdypgzHx2CRs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:7952 Archived-At: Hi, rixed@happyleptic.org writes: > What does he mean by that ? Are there any contraindication against using > guile as an extention language for configuration ? I think Guile would be best used as a configuration aid à la Emacs, where configuration is achieved by actually “programming” the system, sometimes without noticing, not à la fvwmrc (or any other similarly restricted descriptive configuration file.) Thanks, Ludo’.