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Re: [bug] readline completion


Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

> >  What do the other folks in this mailing list do and study?  What do
> > yous use guile for?  What do you program with it?  I'm very curious.
> > Will I be able to land a job someday for knowing a lot about this
> > stuff?  Doing what?
> 
> I wonk on GDB for a living (decided to let that typo stand); once
> Guile is a little better packaged, I want to integrate Guile into GDB,
> or maybe just roll a whole new debugger based on Guile and GTK+.

This would be *very* cool.  GDB isn't nearly extensible enough as it
stands now, and good debugging tools can make a huge impact on helping
people write good code quickly.  I'll be excited to see (and possibly
help) with that project...

But first Guile 1.3! :-)  I'm really glad you're back, too!

Greg