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<spk121>pray for me as I attempt to compile guile from source on cygwin <janneke>spk121: fear not, patches to cross-build guile.exe to mingw are already available for Guix <spk121>janneke: I'll have to check that out. <spk121>and someday, if I get motivated, I'll have to file more cygwin patches to gnulib <janneke>spk121: note that patches have not been merged yet, working on that <Walakea>can Guile be considered a general-purpose language? <ijp>I don't really see that as being true any more <ijp>right now it's in the uncomfortable schizophrenic void between the two <Walakea>and i wonder how much can Guile be similar to Python <random-nick>Walakea: there are a plenty of similarities in language features <ijp>I don't see guile and python as being very similar <janneke>for me, python and guile are pretty similar, and moving on from python to guile feels like a very natural step <random-nick>ijp: there are a few elements, like functions as values, closures, dictionary type(s)... <random-nick>ijp: also python programmers often use list processing <ijp>python lists aren't lists <ijp>but if you are going to be that liberal, then you can say basically any language is pretty similar to guile <ijp>for homework, we can go away and define a topology on programming languages, encapsulating our ideas of closeness <janneke>similarity is in the eye of the beholder