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On Jan 1, 2016, at 1:28 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 8:17 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 1, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>>> I am not against people being unix literate. Requiring people to =
know
>>> how to use a command line is a good thing but scheme in the core is
>>> just too far.
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>> Yet a decade ago this was not a big problem. Scheme gave users the =
ability to export data to a variety of downstream flows, a unique gEDA =
capability.
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> For the millionth time I am not trying to remove scheme! There are a
> lot of contributions there (gnetlist) and I would not suggest even for
> a minute removing them.
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> The choice of scheme was a mistake

I disagree. It was very fruitful.

> but that is done and we have to
> keep it now. We should have another interface in parallel to it *not*
> replacing it.

Well, what about Xorn?

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>> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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