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"Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: Jim> This is another interesting point. Whenever you hear someone Jim> say, "We don't need a full language here, it's just a Jim> configuration script", you want to get really suspicious. Jim> History is littered with examples of little config languages Jim> (repeat after me: "We don't need anything too complicated") that Jim> go awry. Amen. GIMP's configuration parser (and batch mode) would be so much simpler if we just imported guile and did it that way. I think the main objections to doing so are the ones I expressed a few messages back: stability, portability, speed, and size.