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> Many interesting comments have been made on this subject. I hope Jim > Blandy and others are not discouraged by them. Nope. :) > I agree that some parts are a mess. The documentation needs updated > as soon as possible. Without good docs, you have to really want to > use Guile to work with it. This will scare off the casual programmer > that is looking for an extension language. Yep. > 1. Minimal startup time. Yes, I know you can reduce Guile's > startup time by various hacks. It *needs* to be fast right > out the box. Yep. > 2. Minimal core. Everything other than basic functionality > needs to be a module. Yep. > 3. Drop dead simple networking (a module). Guile more or less > does this already, except that it needs to be a module and > recv! needs supplemented in some way. Yep. > 4. Drop dead simple GUI (a module). Like STk. I know GUI isn't > important to everyone. Add it to the above features and you > have a language that can compete in the Real World with PERL > and TCL. Yep. > So when are you gonna *DO* something about it, Blandy? After 1.3. We'll begin to address all these things, or I'll find another maintainer. At the moment, I have to pack.