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Re: guile history: your input needed!


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: guile history: your input needed!
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:24:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Keith Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> Several other directions seem to have been pursued for
> a while and then abandonded.  If nobody remembers why,
> then maybe someone will try the same thing again.
> Maybe that's a good thing, because a worthy goal
> remains to be accomplished.  It won't be if it's
> forgotten.  Maybe it's a bad thing because there were
> good reasons for the change, which should not be
> forgotten, either.

I agree that history can highlight the motivation behind design
decisions, and the reason for abandoning some ideas, which is good.

> Do you hate change logs?

They're way too low-level and don't fill that need.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





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