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Tel Aviv, Israel: the GNU (= “Guile N' UNIX”) project announced today that following the popular decision to integrate GNU Guile (= an implementation of the Scheme programming language) into GNU Make, it is going to integrate GNU Guile into the various tools inside GNU coreutils. So for example, GNU cat will have a "-g" flag that will allow embedding Scheme expressions, GNU echo will gain a similar flag, and GNU true and GNU false will allow evaluating Scheme expressions for truth or falsehood. It is not yet clear what functionality GNU head and GNU tail will gain by the integration. O’Reilly Media announced that it will publish a new edition of its series of books, which includes Mastering cat and Mastering echo to cover the additional functionality provided by GNU Guile, and we will give an overview of the additional functionality in the usergroups of the cat mongers, the echo-chamberists, and the (GNU) true believers. “If it’s not bloat, it’s not us.”, said Richard Stallman, the colourful head of the GNU project, and started to sing the Free Software song. Linus Torvalds was not available for comments about the proposal to integrate GNU Guile into the Linux kernel.