2008/11/22 Keith Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It can't hurt, can it?
That is rarely a good enough argument. > What _would_ help us? A better statement of Guile's current purpose. > Whatever happened to tcl? Are you joking here? If not, see gitk. > Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it again > and again repeatedly. Good point. I believe that I personally remember the history (up to a point), but I see now that that's not good enough. > Of course we want somebody who can actually write the truth; > just rumor spreading is of little use. > > A record of what the goals were and why they changed can > be helpful both for getting new people interested, and reminding > veterans what they were fighting for. Yes. Actually I would be interested to see past goal statements too. > I am particularly interested in a short description of the > gh_ interface. At one time it was billed as the new > way to call C, which would be somewhat portable. Then > it was deprecated and removed. What happened? See http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/GH-deprecation.html#GH-deprecation. If you have specific questions, we can try to improve that text. > Several other directions seem to have been pursued for > a while and then abandonded. If nobody remembers why, > then maybe someone will try the same thing again. > Maybe that's a good thing, because a worthy goal > remains to be accomplished. It won't be if it's > forgotten. Maybe it's a bad thing because there were > good reasons for the change, which should not be > forgotten, either. Yes, I agree that this would be useful. > Do you hate change logs? No. And I don't think they're analogous. Regards, Neil
