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> On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Hagen SANKOWSKI <hsank AT nospam DOT chipforge DOT org> wrote:
> 
> :-)
> 
> Quoting Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com>:
> 
>> We just need to agree which scripting language to use for the flow. /Duck
> 
> No flame war please - SCNR? 20 years this Scheme vs. Tcl stuff is now glowing..
> 
> Well, gEDA is using Scheme while ngspice has clearly a Tcl Interface. BTW,
> the commercial EDA world is dominated by Tcl as you certainly know. How about
> a more pragmatic approach - using Guile with Tcl-interpreting macros or contrary.
> I am comfortable with *booth* languages.
> 

I would like to see a more popular languages evaluated. For example:

- Languages that recent college graduates would already know
- Languages that have a large number of books and reference material

Using a popular language, to me, would increase the potential number of contributors.

Cheers,
Ed