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Re: guile as applications language
- To: nwv at acm dot org
- Subject: Re: guile as applications language
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:54:48 -0600 (MDT)
- CC: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
I've been thinking very seriously of Guile Scheme as an applications
language -- one language for both ``development'' and ``extension,''
reflecting a belief that extension is just distributed development.
Emacs showed it is a good idea to write a substantial part of a
program in the language that you are offering users for extensibility.
So I agree with you.
This recent talk reasserting the role of Guile as purely an extension
language for apps otherwise written in C has made me have second
thoughtss about trying to do serious app development in Guile. :)
That seems like possibly a misunderstanding. When we emphasize that
Scheme is the GNU standard for an extension language, that doesn't
mean you shouldn't use it for writing your own code too!