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Re: GNU Guile 1.9.0 released (alpha)


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: GNU Guile 1.9.0 released (alpha)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:35:25 +0200
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Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat 20 Jun 2009 00:05, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.0.
>
> Thank you for doing the release!

Thank *you* for doing most of the work!

>> Guile is an interpreter, compiler, and virtual machine for the Scheme
>> programming language
>
> Perhaps in the future we can just say "implementation of the Scheme
> programming language", and then make it obvious later that we indeed
> have a compiler. Strictly speaking, the VM could be said to be an
> interpreter :)

Yes, I thought about this as well and wasn't satisfied with the
wording.  You're probably right that "implementation of the Scheme
language" is better.

Thanks!

Ludo'.





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