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Guile Tutorial

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2. Introduction

Guile (which can stand for GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language Extension) is the GNU extension language. It started out as an embeddable Scheme interpreter, and has rapidly evolved into a kitchen-sink package including a standalone Scheme interpreter, an embeddable Scheme interpreter, several graphics options, other languages that can be used along with Scheme (for now just ctax and Tcl), and hooks for much more.

2.1 What are scripting and extension languages  
2.2 History of Guile and its motivations  
2.3 How to characterize Guile  


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