Two Years of GNU Guile Scheme 2.0

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:15AM from the better-lisp-for-a-better-tomorrow dept.

Two years ago Guile Scheme, the official extension language of the GNU project, released version 2.0, a major upgrade to the implementation. As part of the two year anniversary, the maintainers organized a challenge to hack a small project using Guile in 30 days as part of a birthday software potluck. The two coolest dishes appear to be OpenGL support using the FFI, and XCB bindings built using the XML specification for XCB: "guile-xcb is a language implemented in the Guile VM that parses the XML files used by the xcb project to specify the X protocol and compiles them into Guile modules containing all the methods and data needed to send requests to the X server and receive replies/events back. If new X extensions are added to the xcb library, guile-xcb can compile and add them with no additional work. " See the release announcement for details on the other dishes.

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scheme, bitches! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-20 03:26 · Score: -1, Troll

You better learn a second programming language and the programming language should be scheme.
Face it -- Perl is dead, ruby is full of idiots that were too dumb for php, and don't get me started on python. No, you need to learn scheme. Parenthesis, continuations, monads, all that shit.