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On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 01:22 +0300, Vladimir Zhbanov
(vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> And that's the "success story" of our community.
> Every smart enough hacker tries to rewrite everything in his
> favourite
> language.

Hmm...

I do not see much beside plain C and Scheme.

OK, gnucap is C++. And there was xgsch2pcb in Python. Maybe the toy
projects pschem and wardana, but I think the authors have spent only a
few hours on that.

The "success story" of gEDA/gaf is more that some people like the old,
ugly and sometimes cumbersome tools and want to avoid all changes.

The other "success story" is, that for a long period no one was willing
to do something at all. Long time Peter C was the only active coder.
And although he was really smart, using C and avoiding visible changes
made it really hart for him. For example, he has worked long on the
cairo drawing for gschem.

And of course there is scheme, GTK and limited Windows support.

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