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Author: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
AuthorDate: Sat Aug 27 01:57:57 2022 +0200

    doc: Lee Thomas suggested the name change.
    
    See (1994-11-04) 
https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.misc.discuss/c/0VtEf1fgEJk/m/IMBs2o-ftrgJ
    > If GEL and GUL and GLUE don't work for the name of the scripting
    > language, how about:
    >
    > GUILE - GNU's Universal Interpreted Language Extension
    >
    > (This also implies Scheme-ing, and means that the GNU's Universal
    > Interpreted Language Developers would be part of a ...)
    > --
    > Lee Thomas
    
    and (1994-11-22) 
https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.misc.discuss/c/9pD9yVoRYFw/m/0z7SLYbx8loJ
    > Why "GUILE"? (GNU's Universal Interpreted Language Extension)
    > Two additional reasons:
    >
    > 1. It does not give deliberate offense to Dr. Ousterhout or his
    > supporters, thereby allowing the warring factions to eventually
    > make peace (along with some others, perhaps - Gloria's 'Usband Is
    > Linguistically Educated) and get back to work.
    > 2. By pronunciation it offers appreciation to one of the co-inventors
    > of Scheme. (Maybe a library package could be named "Scheme User
    > Supported System Macros And Native-code"? OK, that's a stretch ...)
    > --
    > Lee Thomas,
    
    and 
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.scheme/c/X5GrLVAvGLU/m/Xk11xCrbzCcJ
    > A while back, I started calling the language being built by the GNU 
Project
    > GEL. It turns out that GEL is a trademark of Sybase Inc. Therefore,
    > we must choose a new name. Please do not refer to the GNU language
    > as GEL.
    >
    > My favorite proposed name, posted recently to comp.lang.scheme, is GUILE.
    > I like the name, because i think programmers should be encouraged to use
    > GUILE when writing programs. The name may change yet again; but for now,
    > please refer to the GNU language as GUILE.
    >
    > -t
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diff --git a/doc/ref/history.texi b/doc/ref/history.texi
index d351455a5..60d839ac3 100644
--- a/doc/ref/history.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/history.texi
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ the argument was that eventually when GEL became more 
capable, it
 could gain the ability to execute other languages, especially Emacs
 Lisp.
 
-Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Jim Blandy
+Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Lee Thomas
 suggested a new name for GEL: ``Guile''. Besides being a recursive
 acronym, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
 ``Planner'', ``Conniver'', and ``Schemer''. (The latter was truncated