Re: why doesn't gimp use guile?

[Per Bothner]

Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> Okay, replace XML for XML-based languages  in my post and read it again.
> I'm  sorry to  have tought  it  was obvious  that I  was speaking  about
> XML-based languages rather than just XML The Format.

It's not obvious, because a lot of people have no idea what XML is.

> My point is that MANY  persons are using XML-based custom-made languages

That wouldn't surprise me.  However, XSLT is the only one I know about
(i.e. in wide-spread use) that I would classifify as a programming
language ratherthan a data format.

> I'm not so  sure for configuration files (though I  agree with you about
> data).  There  are many situations  where I  think Scheme code  would be
> a  lot  better than  XML,  since  you  could  "create" the  actual  data
> dinamically.   Take, for  example,  Apache's configuration.   If it  was
> based  in Scheme,  you could  have some  code that  generates your  2000
> Virtual hosts dinamically as the file is read rather than having to keep
> the list  updated (or  to invent yet  another custom-made  (XML-based or
> not) extension language).

Even more often useful, I suspect, would be conditionals.
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