It depends completely on the random guy. :)
If you were a knowledgeable advocate of Guile and saw the same risks of "winging it" with C strings, then there'd now be at least two devs with a vested interest in a port of the relevant functionality.

Instead, I agree with the essence of your response.

-Jonathan

     On Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:26 PM, tilt! <tilt@???> wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

no please! I was kidding, as indicated by smileys interleaved with my
postings!  :-D

BTW if you have the time to do it, and if you think it brings you
something, why should a random guy from the internet like i be the one
who gives thumbs up or down?

Should it be your serious intention to present a replacement for the
existing "netman" backend executable that is completely written in a
language i came up with on a whim, by Googeling for LISP dialects,
chances are that it will not be considered.

In any case, Ennius writes:

Otio qui nescit uti
plus negoti habet quam cum est negotium in negotio.

He who does not know how to use leisure
has more of work than when there is work in work.

Best regards,
T.

On 09/12/2015 07:39 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Guile it is.
> Just so we're clear-- I am  assuming you understand why I want to do
> this, and that you will defend the choice of language against
> bike-shedders and Socratic bombers.  (Though of course you don't have
> to defend my actual code.)  If both those assumptions are true then
> I'll get started.
> -Jonathan
> On Saturday, September 12, 2015 12:43 PM, tilt! <tilt@???> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On 09/12/2015 06:04 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > Hi tilt!
> > Is this a serious response?  I ask because the other candidates
> > -- an obscure language and a dead language-- were not.
> >
> > If so tell me which dialect to use.
>
> No, it's *not* a serious response.  Had i been serious, i had
> requested Guile. ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> T.