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From: leet@ims.com (Lee Thomas)
Subject: GUILE - two more reasons to prefer it
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Re: the continuing discussion of the GNU extension language's name.

Why "GUILE"?  (GNU's Universal Interpreted Language Extension)
Two additional reasons:

1. It does not give deliberate offense to Dr. Ousterhout or his
   supporters, thereby allowing the warring factions to eventually
   make peace (along with some others, perhaps - Gloria's 'Usband Is
   Linguistically Educated) and get back to work.
2. By pronunciation it offers appreciation to one of the co-inventors
   of Scheme.  (Maybe a library package could be named "Scheme User
   Supported System Macros And Native-code"?  OK, that's a stretch ...)
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Lee Thomas,  leet@ims.com               (503) 626-7117, ext. 1558
Integrated Measurement Systems
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