Guile is yet another aspirant to universality (was: A vision for Parrot)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1036617428.29604.python-list at python.org>,
Ian Bicking  <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
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>I don't think this is really correct -- I think it was mostly because
>Tcl was a lame language, and was being pushed as an application
>scripting language.  Of course, Lisp is close to RMS's heart, which is
>why the FSF proposed Scheme as an alternative over other languages. 
>Simplicity was always essential for an application scripting language,
>which is probably why Perl wasn't a serious contender.  It was also a
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Also, at that time it wasn't clear that Perl could
serve as an extension language in the sense that
mortals could learn how to embed it.

'Fact, I don't think it's obvious right now.
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