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Re: undead zwgcs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Mon Sep 28 12:16:55 1998
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: griffon@snurgle.org, zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Sep 1998 11:51:09 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:10:15 EDT
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@MIT.EDU>
raeburn@cygnus.com writes:
>
> I don't think there needs to be compatibility, necessarily, but as I
> understand it one of the points of Guile is that it's supposed to be
> able to work with other languages (like Tcl for example). So the
> parser for the existing language could be reworked to return Scheme
> objects, which could either be rewritten as Scheme code and saved to
> disk, or interpreted under Scheme at run time.
>
I'm a fan of Guile myself, but realistically, the muti-language
support is not there yet. However, translating pseudo-languages to
Scheme is easier than more complex ones like Perl (I have interactive
fvwm2rc translation for a Guile-enabled window manager partially done,
and it wasn't that hard.) The .zwgc.desc language strikes me as closer
to the fvwm2rc language than to Perl in complexity.
- Maciej Stachowiak
