This is beta release 1.0b3 of Guile, the GNU extension language library.
+Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-Guile is a portable, embaddable Scheme implementation written in C.
+Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.
Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be
linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
Guile is derived from SCM, by Aubrey Jaffer and others. Tom Lord
-librarified SCM, yeilding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system,
+librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system,
Ice-9, connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular expression
matcher, and took care of a lot of miscellany.
+
+Interesting files include:
+- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
+- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
+- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
+ Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
+
+The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
+
+doc: Documentation for Guile, in Texinfo form.
+libguile: The Guile Scheme interpreter, packaged as an object
+ library for you to link with your programs.
+guile: An interactive front end for the Guile Scheme interpreter.
+rx: A regular expression matching library, interfaced to Guile.
+ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
+lang: A Guile module of tools for writing lexical analyzers and parsers.
+ctax: A Guile module providing a C-like syntax for Scheme.