Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/11/05 10:35 CST: > Hi all, > > I would like to move the Guile instructions to what I feel is a > more proper category, the "Programming" section.
A bit more research digs up this from the Guile info pages: "The Guile Reference Manual ************************** This reference manual documents Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions." And this: "4 What is Guile? **************** Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. Guile implements Scheme as described in the Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (usually known as R5RS), providing clean and general data and control structures. Guile goes beyond the rather austere language presented in R5RS, extending it with a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, powerful string processing, and many other features needed for programming in the real world. Like a shell, Guile can run interactively, reading expressions from the user, evaluating them, and displaying the results, or as a script interpreter, reading and executing Scheme code from a file." There are many more references in the info pages about Guile being a "programming language". -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 11:04:01 up 9 days, 10:37, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.14 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
