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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-06-01 23:29:55 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-06-03 23:46:56 +0200
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+Guix is Nix[0] from Guile[1]!
+
+Concretely, it allows Nix package management to be done entirely in
+Scheme. The goal is to investigate whether Scheme, and in particular
+the ability to define EDSLs, would allow it to fulfill the role of the
+Nix language.
+
+[0] http://nixos.org/nix/
+[1] http://gnu.org/software/guile/