code in cvs is broken

Rob Browning rlb@defaultvalue.org
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:36:11 -0600


Bill Gribble <grib@linuxdevel.com> writes:

> In my out-of-tree development I have been using guile-gtk and libglade
> together extensively and I am VERY happy with this combination.  It
> really lets you get away from C for almost everything except primitive
> bits. 
>
> I would like to see much of the stuff in src/gnome be rewritten in
> Scheme, mainly because GUI code is so much smaller and clearer when you
> have anonymous functions and closures available for callbacks.

In addition to my response to Linas, I *also* agree with Bill.  If we
can manage it, I'd like to see us move away from as much low-level
tinkering as possible.  That would be great, and it is actually the
direction we're headed ATM.  See my next msg.

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Rob Browning
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