Re: What is Guile?

[Jeff Read]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Ricard Mira wrote:
> 
> Maybe I emphasized the multi-lingual aspect too much, but I think we
> should emphasize it a bit, since it seems the fundamental feature in
> the design of Guile.  (But we should do that in a grammatically
> correct way -- thanks for the correction, Thamer!).
> 

It seems as if nowadays when people want multilingual, they go with .NET/Mono 
and MSIL, or alternatively, JVM, and be done with it. These two environments 
also have the advantage of being completely integrated with host applications 
in their native IL -- no bindings or wrappers required. 

I use Guile extensively and never deal with any language except Scheme. Maybe 
I'm missing something in its engineering, but I think Guile's greatest strength 
is as an excellent workhorse Scheme, suited to tasks where others might use 
Perl or Python. Guile and GIMP together are the greatest argument against 
Scheme's propellerheadedness, the prevailing notion that it is suited only for 
academic use.

Am I really off the mark here?

-- 
Jeffrey T. Read
"I fight not for me but the blind babe Justice!" --Galford