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>Guile</A
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>What is Guile?</A
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>Guile is the GNU project's implementation of Scheme, a
	Lisp dialect.  Find out more at <A
HREF="http://gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html"
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>http://gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html</A
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	excellent information at <A
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>The Guile docs are pretty good, but the Scheme standard
	(the wonderfully, obscurely named R5RS) can be found at:
	<A
HREF="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html"
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>Guile is the scripting or "glue" language for the GNOME
	project. From the original announcement:</P
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>We plan to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small
	  utilities and applications. When these bindings are more
	  mature, it should be possible to write complete applications
	  in Scheme.</P
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