Is there anything *enjoyable* about our development process?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> On Saturday 15 October 2005 6:12 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> The point of guile, need I remind, is to get rid of the idea that
>> application designers should be picking the language that users must
>> write their extensions in.  Guile needs front ends for different
>> languages, that's all.
>
> That's like saying roads would be less crowded if we each had individual 
> aircraft! We could justify anything in terms of what might happen.
>
> If the point of guile is that is can use multiple front-ends but those 
> front-ends don't exist, it begs the question: What is the point of Guile?

It's an extension language.

We have to have *some* extension language.

Every extension language is known by some people and not others.

Thomas