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Why would he do that, given that Guile is GNU's flavor of Scheme?
by garnet7 17y ago
Why would he do that, given that Guile is GNU's flavor of Scheme?
- blasdel 17y agoGuile had a bunch of intentions towards being a language-agnostic VM, a decade before that was popular. RMS has been deathly afraid of losing total control over developer tools -- GCC's whole architecture was purposely designed to frustrate anyone trying to write out-of-tree code that handles/produces any of its internal representations (which is why companies are pouring money into llvm/clang). Imagine the bricks he would shit if emacs was a useful target for external compilers!