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On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:55 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:

> On 02/08/2015 02:25 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>> For those of us repelled by all of the epicycles in pcb, adding more will not be attractive.
>>   Keepouts in particular are pretty essential, John.
> 
> He might be referring to patching on a fix, rather than streamlining its code first.
> Any new features added to pcb as is make it even more tangly looking code.

Not so much the code as the design. Pcb has no coherent model of what a circuit board is. It’s very confusing to someone who expects to build things up by composition of things composed of simpler things composed of simpler things …

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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