Re: Gtk patch version 2, part 1

[Nick Roberts]

 > > Is any elisp GTK support planned?  Using GTK widgets from elisp would
 > > be cool.
 > 
 > Nothing planned.  XEmacs have it, but I have not looked at how that is
 > done.  I did read some discussion about it in usenet around the time
 > it was done, it then sounded quite complicated :-)

I'm sure it has been discussed many times before but can someone please
explain to me in simple terms (perhaps by way of a brief history lesson) why
guile-gtk has has a Scheme interpreter. Does this not result in duplication
of effort ? Or does it serve a different purpose ?

Nick