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[Pat Eyler <peyler@nortom.com>]

Thanks for your interest in guile.  Let me try to address your points
in order.

We've removed the links to the docs because they are under heavy
renovation, and are (at this point) less helpful than worthwhile.

I wrote the originals of both sets of web pages, and maintain the
pages at red-bean.  Jim Blandy and I are trying to resynch the pages
at this point.  Once they are the same (with a couple of cosmetic
differences), there will be no point in referring them to one another.

Guile is not dead, rather it is moving toward the critical mass needed
to 'hit the big time'.  I'd recommend that you subscribe to the
guile mailing list at 'guile-request@cygnus.com' for a more accurate
look ath the state of the language.

Instead of commenting on the rest of your questions, I'll defer to the
community on the mailing list.

-pate


>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@alum.mit.edu> writes:

    Stavros> Hi, I was trying to get some info on Guile, and came
    Stavros> across the page http://www.red-bean.com/guile/ .  I think
    Stavros> you could improve this page by:

    Stavros> -- Referring to the current documentation (also at
    Stavros> red-bean).

    Stavros> -- Referring to the Guile page at gnu.org, which appears
    Stavros> to be more actively maintained.

    Stavros> Frankly, after looking at this page and a few of the
    Stavros> pages to which it links, I got the impression that Guile
    Stavros> was dead.  Is it?

    Stavros> Another thing that would be nice would be to define the
    Stavros> niche of Guile as compared to Tcl, Javascript, VBScript,
    Stavros> etc.  Does it currently run on Windows?  Will it ever?
    Stavros> Similarly, what is its position w.r.t. Java and JVM?

    Stavros> My web search showed some work on translating from
    Stavros> Emacs-Lisp to Guile.  As a devoted Emacs-Lisp user, this
    Stavros> interests me a lot.  In fact, I often wish I could just
    Stavros> use Emacs-Lisp as my general-purpose extension language.
    Stavros> Can I?

    Stavros> Thanks,

    Stavros>               -s