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First alpha of Guile 2.0 - supports Scheme and ECMAScript

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9 pointsthristian3 comments

From the NEWS file linked on the original page:

    Guile now ships with one other high-level language supported,
    ECMAScript. The goal is to support all of version 3.1 of the standard,
    but not all of the libraries are there yet. This support is not yet
    documented; ask on the mailing list if you are interested.

For more information on Guile's ECMAScript support, see:

http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/02/22/ecmascript-for-guile http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/02/25/callcc-and-ecmascrip...

I hope they eventually use this for Emacs, but other than that, I'm not terribly interested...

I'm quite interested. It's high time someone tried to get beyond byte codes as the building blocks of high level languages.

Why not something like Scheme? It seems to be as good a candidate as anything else. GCC used to use a Lisp-like language for its intermediate representation.

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