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Re:Nix Language Primer by adev_ on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:41AM (#18381826)
Because nobody want to program in (((( Guile )))), to the point that even GDB disable its support as extension language.
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Re:Nix Language Primer by spacesuitman2 on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:36AM (#18383079)
However undesirable it appears at first, it does prevent the creation of an infinite number of new, incompatible languages. Config languages tend toward turing completeness and just become turing tarpits. That's why I'm asking about using a Lisp which is extendable to its problem domain.

Source on gdb disabling it? Just writing `gr` in gdb enters the guile repl.

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Re:Nix Language Primer by adev_ on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:11AM (#18389714)
It has been disable by default and is not even compiled-in anymore on all major linux distributions ( RHEL, Debian, ubuntu ).

>(gdb) gr Guile scripting is not supported in this copy of GDB.

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Re:Nix Language Primer by spacesuitman2 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:40AM (#18391946)
What's your version? I'm on 8.2
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