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Guile - GNU extensibility library

An implementation of the Scheme programming language built to be used as an extension language. It's a library you can link into your programs. Your program has full access to the interpreter's data structure, so you can extend Guile with your own primitives, datatypes, and syntax, and tailor the language to your application.

It also lets more people use your language, as they needn't learn the internals of your app. They just need to understand the language and the primitives you've provided, and they can trade and share ideas by passing around scripts without you.

It has arrays, lists, modules, objects, first class functions, and garbage collection.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.4.tar.gz
Version 1.6.4 (stable) released on 2003-04-29
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
Programmer manual available in HTML format from http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/anon-cvs.html
Support contacts

Announce List<info-gnu@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
Announce Newsgnu.announce
Help List<guile-user@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
Help Newscomp.lang.scheme
Developer List<guile-devel@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
Bug List<bug-guile@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • Marius Vollmer
  • Kevin Ryde
  • Mikael Djurfeldt
  • Rob Browning
  • Han-Wen Nienhuys
Contributors
  • Radey Shouman
  • Gary Houston
  • Jim Blandy
  • Tom Lord
  • Anthony Green
  • Mark Galassi
  • Roland Orre
  • Michael Livshin
  • Tim Pierce
  • Martin Grabmueller
  • Will Fitzgerald
  • Jost Boekemeier
  • Dirk Herrmann
  • Greg Badros
  • Neil Jerram
  • Thien-Thi Nguyen
  • Robert Merkel
  • Marc Feeley
  • Matthias Koeppe
  • Keisuke Nishida
  • Stefan Jahn
  • Bill Schottstaedt
  • Russell McManus
  • Thomas Tanner
  • Greg Harvey
  • Tom Tromey

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Supported languagesscheme
Weak prerequisitesreadline (for command line editing)
Related programsMIT/GNU Scheme

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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