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(What is Guile?): Add @acronym for POSIX, R5RS, GUI,

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and HTTP.  Conclude linking libguile.
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@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ Revised$^5$
@ifnottex
Revised^5
@end ifnottex
Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (usually known as R5RS),
Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (usually known as @acronym{R5RS}),
providing clean and general data and control structures. Guile goes
beyond the rather austere language presented in R5RS, extending it with
a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support,
beyond the rather austere language presented in @acronym{R5RS}, extending it with
a module system, full access to @acronym{POSIX} system calls, networking support,
multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface,
powerful string processing, and many other features needed for
programming in the real world.
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ user, evaluating them, and displaying the results, or as a script
interpreter, reading and executing Scheme code from a file. However,
Guile is also packaged as an object library, allowing other applications
to easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter. An application can
use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration
then use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration
language, or as multi-purpose ``glue'', connecting primitives provided
by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice
versa, giving the application designer full control of how and when to
@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ language tailored to the task at hand, but based on a robust language
design.
Guile's module system allows one to break up a large program into
manageable sections with well-defined interfaces between them. Modules
may contain a mixture of interpreted and compiled code; Guile can use
either static or dynamic linking to incorporate compiled code. Modules
also encourage developers to package up useful collections of routines
for general distribution; as of this writing, one can find Emacs
interfaces, database access routines, compilers, GUI toolkit interfaces,
and HTTP client functions, among others.
manageable sections with well-defined interfaces between them.
Modules may contain a mixture of interpreted and compiled code; Guile
can use either static or dynamic linking to incorporate compiled code.
Modules also encourage developers to package up useful collections of
routines for general distribution; as of this writing, one can find
Emacs interfaces, database access routines, compilers, @acronym{GUI}
toolkit interfaces, and @acronym{HTTP} client functions, among others.
In the future, we hope to expand Guile to support other languages like
Tcl and Perl by translating them to Scheme code. This means that users