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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:47:26 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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On 02/04/2015 05:47 PM, Jason White wrote:
> I really like Lua (for ease of use) and Python (for the language and
> libraries). I suspect Lua is lighter-weight and more straight-forward
> to technically implement.
> 
> Because of that, I recommend Lua (lua.org). A lightweight, embeddable
> scripting language which is very popular in the video game industry.
> Lua is written as a plain C library and is licensed under the MIT
> license. I myself have used Lua on multiple occasions (for scripting
> and configuration files) and found it very straightforward to use.
> 
> Honestly, I wonder why we don't use something like Lua (or Python) for
> our PCB and schematic file formats. Instead of having to write custom
> text interpreters with yaml (or by even hand!) would could simply read
> elements from an array defined in a Lua file. With Lua doing all of
> the heavy lifting, instead of a bunch of hand crafted code, it would
> be much simpler for us to extend the format to represent complex
> things (buried vias and asymmetrical pins come to mind).

  Good heavens, please no.  Data files that are also programs are SUCH a
damn headache to deal with.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA