Re: What is Guile?y

[Thamer Al-Harbash]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Ricard Mira wrote:

> But above all, we plan to make Guile a
> *multi-lingual* environment, which will allow users to extend programs
> using their favorite extension languages.

Two quick gripes :)

(1) Use "Above all" instead of "But above all" (better grammar).

(2) Is this still a viable goal for guile? As a software
    developer of a project that is using guile for an extension
    language I'm beginning to think its less work to maintain
    bindings to other languages like Perl and Python than it is to
    write a translator from those languages to Scheme.

    I'm not trying to troll since I do realize this may be a sour
    point, but do the guile maintainers feel the work in writing
    translators is justified when its less of a hassle to simply
    provide bindings to other languages on a per application
    basis?

BTW my thanks go to Kevin Ryde for stepping up and doing all the
doco work.

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