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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> (They could have chosen Guile instead of a custom Lisp, but that=E2=80=99=
s an
> =E2=80=9Cimplementation detail=E2=80=9D.  :-))

>From my reading of the whitepaper, no. They have pretty strict
constraints on their language because they send live code updates
to running instances and want to be able to make certain guarantees.
Guile, or any other Scheme, would be too flexible.

Konrad.