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<h3 class="section" id="Guile-and-the-GNU-Project-1"><span>1.3 Guile and the GNU Project<a class="copiable-link" href="#Guile-and-the-GNU-Project-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
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<p>Guile was conceived by the GNU Project following the fantastic success
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of Emacs Lisp as an extension language within Emacs. Just as Emacs
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Lisp allowed complete and unanticipated applications to be written
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within the Emacs environment, the idea was that Guile should do the
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rebuilding the C code; but if the program also provides an extension
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language, that is usually a much friendlier and lower-barrier-of-entry
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way for the user to start making their own changes.
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<p>Guile is now used by GNU project applications such as AutoGen, Lilypond, Denemo,
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Mailutils, TeXmacs and Gnucash, and we hope that there will be many more in
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