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Re[2]: Why is it called "ice-9"?
- To: karlheg at bittersweet dot inetarena dot com (Karl M. Hegbloom), Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re[2]: Why is it called "ice-9"?
- From: Lars dot Arvestad at eu dot pnu dot com (Lars Arvestad)
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:47:02 +0100
- Cc: GNU Guile Scheme <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> explained:
> karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
>> What's the origin of the name "ice-9"?
>Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle".
>now, *why* it's used in Guile the way it's used I don't know.
I recall that Tom Lord, the first (?) maintainer/developer of Guile got
quite inspired by plan-9 during a long silent period of hacking. When he
eventually made a guile release, the module solution was to use a name
space, much like plan-9, for accessing modules.
But I may be wrong....
Lars
(who used to be at nada.kth.se)