Re: Octave and Guile?

[Richard Stallman]

Guile is the GNU standard extensibility package, so it is important
for Octave to use Guile rather than Python, even if the Python license
incompatibility issue did not exist.

    Perhaps merger is not the right word -- I'm not talking about merging
    numerical tools with the Guile core, but about replacing Octave's
    interpreter with Guile, and writing a translator for Octave's language
    into Guile.

Ideally the translator would be written in Scheme, but to make the job
easier you could take your existing parser and make it output Scheme
code, and then turn it into a function that could be called from
Scheme.  This might be fairly easy for you to do.  Later on someone
could rewrite it as a Scheme program.