🚀 go-pugleaf

bruce@liverpool.ac.uk writes:

>Unfortunately:

>: Academic Erlang

>: Erlang is not in the public domain but an unsupported implementation
>: is available free of charge for non-commercial research and
>: educational organizations.

>Which is hardly acceptable for GUILE, which has to be usable in free
>and commercial programs, and must have source code available.  In
>addition, erlang appears to be a nonstandard Prolog type language,
>which is going to be just slightly more attractive than Intercal (it's
>not that I don't like Prolog, but something procedural will be better
>for most users, and even I don't want to use a nonstandard Prolog).

The posting that I replied to suggested an interpreted C-like
language. The poster didn't want to have to learn a new language.

What I intended to say (but maybe forgot) was that learning a new
language is not always a bad thing. It gives you a different
perspective on things.

I did not intend to advertise a commercial/proprietary product, I know
that the GNU mailing lists/Gnews groups are not intended for that.

On the other hand, the language itself is not proprietary so anyone is
free to write his own implementation.

Whether Erlang is a suitable language for GUILE is, however, quite a
different matter .....

	Johan