Re: gnome-config problems

[Stephan Pfab <pfab thales sai mathematik uni-ulm de>]

> 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