Re: Why use guile?

[Ulric Eriksson <ulric edu stockholm se>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Anthony Martin wrote:

> If GNOME will only support one scripting language, then perhaps we will
> have separate projects split off from GNOME, i.e. PyGNOME, PerlGNOME, etc. 
> similar to what has happened to FVWM.  I think this would be a bad thing. 
> Why does there have to be a a single "official" extension language?

Gnome shouldn't try to shove a single language down anybody's throat. The
idea of a "standard" or "default" scripting language is healthy, but that
is no reason to outlaw other languages. And I have seen no suggestions to
that effect.

Until Perl and Tcl are implemented on top of Guile (snicker, snicker)
there is no good alternative to having several scripting languages.

Ulric