Re: What is Guile?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>

    > It is interesting to note that Java is much more the "multi-lingual
    > framework", considering Kawa (Scheme in Java), 

This is still pretty good:

     http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/javaScheme.html


JVM is a popular target for economic and political reasons, not
technical ones.    In a technical sense, it's a lousy target.

As engineers, working to align the economics and politics with the
technology is our job.

Some (unspecified) thing in the space of lisp dialects is probably a
better UIL than JVM bytecodes.

-t