bug#57440: Guile manual has incorrect history on the name

Lee Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <CANYin9UY2kzpk4i7EFvo54DTp1AeFPkaqKBcRQLonJn8HmGxmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Early-Days.html isn't
correct where in the fourth paragraph it says "Jim Blandy suggested a new
name for GEL". It was actually me, as documented in the second paragraph
here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile#History  Due to the Tcl Wars
some of the name suggestions were becoming offensive, especially to Dr.
Ousterhout, so I thought I would suggest something more positive. To my
astonishment, Tom Lord liked it and used it, over the objections of others.

I'm dying of cancer so soon it won't matter, and I was never a part of
Guile's inner circle anyway, so this isn't a truly important issue for me.
If it would ruffle political feathers to take credit from Jim then I'm fine
with leaving it as is, but I do feel responsibility to simply report it
here - especially before someone else does and asks why the manual and
Wikipedia don't match.
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