Re: guile history: your input needed!

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth "Neil Jerram" <address@hidden>:
> 2008/11/20 Andy Wingo <address@hidden>:
>> Hey Guilers!
>>
>> Many (most?) of you have been at this guile thing for longer than I
>> have, some of you from the very beginning. While doing some
>> reorganizations to the manual to get the VM docs in [0], I realized that
>> a big missing piece of our public narrative is our history.
>
> Apologies for not saying this when you raised this before, but to be
> honest I'm not much bothered about Guile's history.  How does it help
> us (Guile developers and users) to add this to the manual?

It will help different people in different ways and no doubt there are
some, like yourself, whom it won't help at all.

Personally, I appreciate histories most when I'm new to a subject (for
obvious reasons) but a good history makes interesting reading at any
stage of understanding IMHO.  In fact, I can't think of anything that
makes me feel more comfortable in a new environment than a concise and
well written history covering all the major stages of development.

We do want new users don't we?

> (And I'm especially bored of hearing about the old tcl war yet again...)

You don't have to read it then Neil :-)  I'd like to hear about it.

Seb