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Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?
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Christopher Cramer |
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Re: why doesn't gimp use guile? |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:12:04 -0600 |
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:13:56PM -0500, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> I guess this is some kind of vicious circle (do you use that expression
> in english? I'm translating literally from spanish's "circulo
> vicioso")
I believe the expression "vicious cycle" is more common in English, but
"vicious circle" is perfectly clear.
> For instance, there is a current discusion in Ion's mailing list about
> adding support for a real extension language. Some people are in for
> Perl while others scream Guile. Perl, unfortunately, is available on
> more platforms so they might end implementing things in Perl (even
> though, in my humble opinion, Guile's API for calling Scheme from C and
> C from Scheme is MUCH more sane than Perl's braindead XS system).
By "is available on more platforms" do you mean it comes installed on
more platforms or it actually compiles and runs on more platforms? The
former is obviously going to be true for a long time to come, but the
latter could be easily fixed.
> In my opinion, one thing that could bring up the number of machines with
> Guile installed is selling it to the public as The Gnome way to
> configure software. This way it could be seen as a standard Gnome
> component and get installed wherever Gnome is. Gnome is currently using
> libXml for most of its applications' config files. LibXML is fine and I
> think its maintainer does a very good job but I can't get my self to
> like all that JibbaJabba about XML...
There's a quote from Henry Spencer that goes, "Those who do not understand
Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." I guess the same is true
of Lisp. Although, I would've expected many people who chose to use XML
would've known better.
--
Christopher Cramer <address@hidden> <http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/>
Quoi que vous fassiez, écrasez l'infâme, et aimez qui vous aime.
-- Voltaire
- Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, (continued)
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, MJ Ray, 2002/02/17
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, 2002/02/25
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, Per Bothner, 2002/02/25
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, Ken Anderson, 2002/02/19
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?,
Christopher Cramer <=
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, Ingo Ruhnke, 2002/02/17
Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?, Ciaran O'Riordan, 2002/02/25