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GNU Guile 2.0.0 released

GNU Guile 2.0.0 released

Posted Feb 19, 2011 19:32 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: GNU Guile 2.0.0 released

Congratulations to all Guile participants. Better late than never! Guile is clearly superior, in its underlying design, to all other scripting/extension languages in use.

I commend the vision of the original Guile developer, Tom Lord, in recognizing Lisp's true nature as an excellent scripting-language design. Perhaps all Guile needs now is pool-based garbage collection, so it can ignore memory malloc'd by the C and C++ libraries it calls. (Or is that what Boehm-Demers-Weiser does?)

The Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile, deserves an update.


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GNU Guile 2.0.0 released

Posted Feb 19, 2011 23:09 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Guile is clearly superior, in its underlying design, to all other scripting/extension languages in use.
That is very much a subject for (religious!) debate. It's good, certainly.

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