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This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, the GNU extension language This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
library. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent
execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building
extensible programs.
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT SNAPSHOTS: Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental;
Important Facts About Snapshots ======================================
please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental;
they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on
some systems. They may contain interfaces which will change. some systems. They may contain interfaces which will change.
They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by people They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by people
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Via the web, that's: ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz Via the web, that's: ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
For getit, that's: alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz For getit, that's: alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.
Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be
linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
Guile is derived from SCM, by Aubrey Jaffer and others. Tom Lord Contents Of This Distribution ========================================
librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system,
Ice-9, connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular expression
matcher, and took care of a lot of miscellany.
Interesting files include: Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile. - INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
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and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and
fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Authors And Contributors =============================================
George Carrette wrote SIOD, a stand-alone scheme interpreter.
Although most of this code as been rewritten or replaced over time,
the garbage collector from SIOD is still an important part of Guile.
Aubrey Jaffer seriously tuned performance and added features. He
designed many hairy parts of the tag system and evaluator.
Tom Lord librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating
system, Ice-9, and connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular
expression matcher.
Gary Houston wrote the Unix system call support, including the socket
support.
The `qt' threads library was written by David Keppel; contributors to
it include: Weihaw Chuang, Richard O'Keefe, Laurent Perron, John
Polstra, Shinji Suzuki, Assar Westerlund, and Uwe Reder.
Anthony Green wrote the original version of `threads' the interface
between Guile and qt.
Mikael Djurfeldt designed and implemented:
* the source-level debugger,
* the GDB patches to support debugging mixed Scheme/C code
* the original implementation of weak hash tables,
* the dynamic root, and
* rewrote the `threads' interface.