My recent post about Mono was sincere, and Boycott Novell has the story about Debian wrong, but Gnome actually is pushing an alternative. Before I introduce you to the programming language Vala, let me give you some background on programming for Gnome as I understand it (note that I am not a programmer and haven't done anything real since the mid-80s).
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can.axis
15 years 38 weeks 3 hours 56 min ago
(cons 'guile 'gnome)
The best way to hack gnome is to use a-really-lispy-environment like guile...
* guile-gnome: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/
* stable guile-gnome released: http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/07/03/stable-guile-gnome-released
* see also Guile-Clutter: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/clutter/html/