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- Here is a very, very brief history of this interpreter.
- I hope that people involved in its past will contribute
- more to this document.
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- SIOD:
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- George Carrette wrote SIOD, the earliest version. Although most of
- this code as been rewritten or replaced over time, the garbage
- collector from SIOD is still an important part of Guile.
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- From what I can tell, many people use SIOD either directly, or in
- other interpreters derived from it. This seems to be a very
- influential piece of code!
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- SCM:
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- Aubrey Jaffer seriously tuned performance, added many new features,
- and coordinated the contribution of new features from volunteers.
- Aubrey uses SCM for Jacal, a symbolic math package he wrote. He uses
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- Guile:
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- Guile is a GNU volunteer project, initiated by Richard Stallman. The
- project has turned SCM into a library, added some features so to make
- the interpreter more flexible, and added some new types and extension
- packages. The goal is to make a small, powerfully scalable extension
- langauge library that everyone will want to use. Guile will be used
- in several GNU programs.
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