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Bradley, I'm not sure what you'll see from the rest of the community, but the following are some things I think are important to Guile and not there yet. * multiple syntaxes -- one of the early promises of guile was that you could write in multiple languages (TCL, Perl 5, etc.) and run it in the Guile interpreter [see note 1 below]. Implementing one of these (either BASH [see note 2 below] or Perl 5) would be very cool [see note 3 below]. * a byte compiler -- this has been talked about on the list (as has a true guile compiler or a guile to C compiler), check the archives at www.red-bean.com/guile/guile for more info. * better tools for handling specific things -- there are a few packages available on the ftp archive in the contrib area, but more would be nice, for example: - snmp - html parsing - translator development tools [see note 1 below (again)] * reriting dejagnu to use guile [see note 4 below] -pate your friendly neighborhood arachnist [note 1] there is an example syntax (ctax) and some tools for this that were a part of early guile. I'm not sure if/how well these work anymore. [note 2] rms wants to have guile built into bash. Making guile understand the bash sytax and making it capable of handling multiple syntaxes concurrently would go a long way toward fulfilling this desire. [note 3] making guile understand expect would be very good as well, some work in this area was done in pre 1.0 guile. I don't know if this stuff still works. [note 4] if guile were to understand expect syntax (a la note 3), this would come out in the wash - wouldn't it?