Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
o you get the impression that Guile is described as "just" an > extension language? This thread is about the logo baseline, which is: “GNU extension language”. I agree that the web site is clearer; I’m just talking about the logo here. >>> Actually I’d love to see Guile become

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matt Wette writes: > On 1/19/20 6:11 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> Other adjectives I proposed (fast, functional) don’t quite apply to >>> these, though. >> Functional doesn’t apply to Guile much better than to CPython. > > I think "functional" is used in the

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-19 Thread Matt Wette
On 1/19/20 6:11 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Ludovic Courtès writes: Other adjectives I proposed (fast, functional) don’t quite apply to these, though. Functional doesn’t apply to Guile much better than to CPython. I think "functional" is used in the formal sense. The term applies to

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Like I wrote, Guile remains an extension language, no argument here. > > However, describing it as “just” an extension language seems odd to me. > It doesn’t take into account what many have been doing with Guile, and > it doesn’t match the efforts that have gone into G

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Arne Babenhauserheide skribis: > Thomas Morley writes: > >>> Clearly, Guile is still an extension language, with many great >>> applications (Gnucash, Lepton-EDA, OpenCog, GDB, etc.) >> >> Well, you forgot LilyPond > > The one tool that uses Guile while dominating its domain. Yup, I don

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > What’s about you? What’s Guile to you? :-) Guile is the force that binds GNU together. Guile was intended to extend (all) GNU programs, truly empowering the user. You made Guile into a great language for writing programs. Now Guile even creates a coherent GNU System

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Thomas Morley writes: >> Clearly, Guile is still an extension language, with many great >> applications (Gnucash, Lepton-EDA, OpenCog, GDB, etc.) > > Well, you forgot LilyPond The one tool that uses Guile while dominating its domain. > Well, for me, Guile's _the_ extension language for my Lil

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Sa., 18. Jan. 2020 um 15:14 Uhr schrieb Ludovic Courtès : > > 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, w

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ludovic Courtès writes: > 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. What do you mean about the logo? Do you mean tagline? Where I see a tagline is at the w

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Nala Ginrut
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 10:14 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guilers! > 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 cap

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Matt Wette
On 1/18/20 6:08 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: 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 (G

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Linus Björnstam
Fun I can agree with! It is what made me stick with Guile in the first place. GNU as an adjective seems odd: I think that can better be conveyed as a part of the name "GNU Guile". It is and, if I have understood the discussions going on here, will continue to be a GNU project. Maybe treat fun as

Re: Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le sam. 18 janv. 2020 à 15:14, Ludovic Courtès 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

Logo baseline

2020-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
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