[Omake] Extra stuff in "Guide" section of manual

[Jason Hickey]

Benjamin Pierce wrote:
> You're welcome -- and thank YOU for OMake: I've been hating GNU Make  
> for years and despairing of something better ever coming along  because 
> it is so much work and almost nobody could be trusted to do  the 
> language design part right, but you guys have really done it!!   Now I 
> want everybody else to start using it so that I never have to  deal with 
> GNU Make again.  :-)

I agree!  And thanks on behalf of the OMake team:)  You had mentioned 
another method for easing adoption: define a script for converting from 
GNU make to OMake specifications (offering suggestions for manual 
translation in strange cases).  Aleksey and I have talked about it--the 
main fear is that nearly everything will be strange:/  But I have hope, 
it would be great if this can work.

> (I was pretty sceptical of the "purely functional but with dynamic  
> binding" thing at first, but I'm convinced now.

I must admit to the same initial scepticism.  It is clear to me that 
this is the way to go, but there are the usual issues with scalability. 
  We have a plan in 0.9.9 for refining the namespace.  The main goal is 
to keep the feel of the simple language model, while avoiding possible 
errors.

> In fact, I wonder if  there isn't a story to be told about such languages at a more  abstract level...

I agree:)

Jason

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