[Jscheme-user] Fwd: LWN thread on gnucash, mentions guile

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Gnucash is a large Linux application that uses Guile scheme.
Perhaps there are some lessons we can learn from this discussion.
One is keep the cost of entry low and API's clearly documented.


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>  http://lwn.net/Articles/43856/
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>This has some discussion of whether using guile was a good idea or
>not.
>
>Interestingly, that discussion focuses on whether "Scheme is too
>hard"; I didn't see any "guile is broken" comments.  So perhaps half
>the battle has been won.
>
>(They are looking for help - the thread is in response to a call for
>help from one of the lead gnucash developers.) 
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>        Greg Troxel <gd...@ir...>
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