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On 12/31/2015 07:12 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>   Also people seem to think I want to remove the scheme we
> already have. I don't I just don't want the basic scheme in the core
> to grow. Plugins in scheme are a good thing. More ways to access
> scheme across all of geda are good. More high level functions in
> scheme are good.
>
> Deemphasis does not equal removal.

refactoring, repairing, and simplifying some of the core scheme/guile/LISP in gschem will reduce the lines of code.
I say, "Use a HLL for almost everything and C lang where speed is needed, and minimize or outlaw global data structures in C.

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