Re: gnome-config problems
- From: Stephan Pfab <pfab thales sai mathematik uni-ulm de>
- To: alameda ibm net
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: gnome-config problems
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:43:53 +0100
> There is one thing in gnome I'd like to know the origin of: guile.
> The reason is that I cannot stand lisp (and thus scheme). I always get a
> headache when looking at the sources of the emacs modi and its config
> file .emacs
My tip for reading scheme code:
Ignore the brackets; read the indentation
> As there are many script languages which could be interesting (as my
> preferred, Perl), I would appreciate it if any of you told me what the
> advantages/whatever of using scheme as gnome script language are.
Perl is a text processing language.
Scheme/ Lisp/ Guile is that plus a general purpose language ...
Would you like to write emacs in perl?
In Scheme data = code. You don't need to parse a config
file, just load it.
In short: elegance + power = scheme
Stephan
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