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diff --git a/doc/ref/history.texi b/doc/ref/history.texi index b14b44923..7454cfe36 100644 --- a/doc/ref/history.texi +++ b/doc/ref/history.texi @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Lisp. Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Jim Blandy suggested a new name for GEL: ``Guile''. Besides being a recursive -acroymn, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors, +acronym, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors, ``Planner'', ``Conniver'', and ``Schemer''. (The latter was truncated to ``Scheme'' due to a 6-character file name limit on an old operating system.) Finally, ``Guile'' suggests ``guy-ell'', or ``Guy L. @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ applications and a more fully dynamic programming environment is still with us today. @node A Scheme of Many Maintainers -@subsection A Scheme of Many Mantainers +@subsection A Scheme of Many Maintainers Surveying the field, it seems that Scheme implementations correspond with their maintainers on an N-to-1 relationship. That is to say, that @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ maintainership of one individual. Guile is atypical in this regard. -Tom Lord maintaned Guile for its first year and a half or so, +Tom Lord maintained Guile for its first year and a half or so, corresponding to the end of 1994 through the middle of 1996. The releases made in this time constitute an arc from SCM as a standalone program to Guile as a reusable, embeddable library, but passing |