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On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 15:19 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> Well, the choice of Scheme was clearly from the MIT 6.001 influence.
> Every EECS student at MIT takes that class, but I think many on the EE
> side really didn’t “get” it very well when it was built around Scheme.
> MIT has recently switched to Python. Both were originally intended as
> teaching languages, but Scheme implements a theorist’s vision of
> programming, while Python is more pragmatic. Python is thus far more
> widely known and used. It also has a much more extensive collection of
> modules. A toolkit like gEDA winds up making connections to other
> tools and toolkits. Python is better suited to making these
> connections than Scheme is.

I'm entirely sure my feelings about python, but I suspect for user
comfort, it ends up about a million times better than scheme.

Lua would also be on my list of scripting languages to consider, given a
blank slate.

Peter


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