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-This file states the goals of Guile.
-
-* Goals of Guile
-
-Guile is many things to many people.  It has multiple ways to approach
-it: as a C library that provides an extension language, as a
-programming language in its own right, as a interface to the operating
-system, as an interactive shell, or as a platform that integrates many
-independent subsystems.
-
-These different roles have a lot in common, but there are also some
-opposing forces that need to be balanced.
-
-Not everything of what is outlined below has been realized yet.  The
-things that are missing will receive high priority from the
-maintainers of Guile.  One thing that is not mentioned below because
-it goes without saying is documentation.  It is of course a goal of
-Guile to have high quality documentation.
-
-More information about the current status of Guile and planned changed
-can be found in the file "plans.text".
-
-** Guile as an extension language library
-
-Guile's primary aim is to provide a good extension language which is
-easy to add to an application written in C for the GNU system.  This
-means that it must export the features of a higher level language in a
-way that makes it easy not to break them from C code.
-
-For example, one important feature of Guile is automatic garbage
-collection.  The C interface to the garbage collector makes it easy to
-use its services for the data structures of the application itself.
-
-** Guile as a programming language
-
-It is an aim to support easy programming using Guile.  This includes
-providing the powerful features of the programming language Scheme,
-like garbage collection, dynamic types, hygienic macros and higher
-order functions.
-
-This also includes things that go beyond standard Scheme, like a
-module system to manage multiple name spaces, a system for object
-oriented programming, support for comfortable multi-threading, and
-internationalization features like Unicode support.
-
-To make it useful, Guile offers good performance.
-
-** Guile as an interface to the operating system
-
-Guile supports most of the POSIX system calls.  Most of Scsh is
-available to Guile users and Guile programs.  Beyond POSIX, Guile also
-makes available important system libraries like the graphical toolkit
-Gtk+.
-
-** Guile as an interactive shell
-
-Guile provides a command line interface with readline support.  The
-interactive features of the programming language allow you to
-incrementally alter a running system.  A integrated debugger allows
-you to analyze such a running system in great detail.
-
-Guile provides online documentation for most of its features.
-
-Guile can also be controlled from Emacs.  This allows you to update
-the definition of a function or some other object in a Guile process
-with the touch of a few keys.  You have access to the documentation in
-a context sensitive way.  It also integrates the debugger nicely into
-your editing environment.
-
-** Guile as an integration platform
-
-With all the features describes above, Guile allows the implementation
-of well behaved modules.  When most of an application is implemented
-as modules with generality and re-usability in mind, Guile will be the
-platform where the integration and reusing will take place.
-
-Thus, Guile makes it easy to factor your application into well
-separated modules and then finish it off by combining them with a thin
-layer of Scheme code.
-
-Guile has support for writing modules in C or other compiled
-languages.
-
-** Guile as a basis for other languages
-
-Scheme is a very powerful language, which makes it possible
-to implement other languages by translating them into Scheme.
-
-By writing translators that convert various popular scripting
-languages into Scheme, we can enable users to choose their favorite
-languages for extending any program that provides extensibility using
-Guile.