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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 -- Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk> Clifton Electronics
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