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Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. 2 Aug 1996 -*- text -*-
Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Guile 1.0b3
This is the beginning of recorded history.
Copyright information:
Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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This is beta release 1.0b3 of Guile, the GNU extension language library. This is beta release 1.0b3 of Guile, the GNU extension language library.
Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Guile is a portable, embaddable Scheme implementation written in C. Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.
Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be
linked in as a library when building extensible programs. linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
Guile is derived from SCM, by Aubrey Jaffer and others. Tom Lord Guile is derived from SCM, by Aubrey Jaffer and others. Tom Lord
librarified SCM, yeilding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system, librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system,
Ice-9, connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular expression Ice-9, connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular expression
matcher, and took care of a lot of miscellany. matcher, and took care of a lot of miscellany.
Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
doc: Documentation for Guile, in Texinfo form.
libguile: The Guile Scheme interpreter, packaged as an object
library for you to link with your programs.
guile: An interactive front end for the Guile Scheme interpreter.
rx: A regular expression matching library, interfaced to Guile.
ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
lang: A Guile module of tools for writing lexical analyzers and parsers.
ctax: A Guile module providing a C-like syntax for Scheme.