Le sam. 18 janv. 2020 à 15:14, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> a écrit : > > Hello Guilers! > > The Guile logo has this “GNU extension language” baseline. As Guile 3 > came out, this baseline felt odd to me, not quite corresponding to the > way I see Guile. > > Clearly, Guile is still an extension language, with many great > applications (Gnucash, Lepton-EDA, OpenCog, GDB, etc.), and I’m sure > libguile is here to stay. Yet, to me, “extension language” does not > accurately capture what Guile today allows for and what people have been > doing with it; since 2.0, it’s more than an extension language, even > more so with the performance afforded by Guile 3.
I agree. > > Thus, I’d propose changing the baseline. Something that would describe > what Guile is to me is: > > GNU, fast, fun, functional > I think the term functional is overloaded and somewhat misleading because Guile is NOT ONLY functional. I would rather see "multi-paradigm" and / or "batteries included". > What’s about you? What’s Guile to you? :-) Guile is a fast dynamic programming language.
