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Guile always surprised me not because of anything LISPy, but because of its relationship with TCL https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/ https://vanderburg.
by uticus 3y ago
Guile always surprised me not because of anything LISPy, but because of its relationship with TCL
https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/ https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/
- Pinus 3y agoIn RMS’ message that started that discussion, he stated that the GNU project intended to provide two languages — one Lisp-like (which I assume eventually became Guile), and one with a more algebra-like syntax. Did anything ever come out of the latter?
- Y_Y 3y agoThe current advice from GNU is that Guile is the one true language for the project[0]. There are terms of languages that are currently part of GNU[1] but none that seem to meet the description of algebraic and blessed. [0] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Source-Language.html https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Source-Language... [1] https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html