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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Peter Clifton wrote:

>
> I think it must be just the IDEA that we use scheme that has put you
> off. (Or the stated excuse ;))

Not really. At some point I did sit down and wrote some netlist plugins, 
and it was painful.

>
> If you dug into the code, you would find that the VAST majority of
> geda/gaf is written in C.  Only the (appallingly badly written - sorry!)
> net-list backends make extensive use of scheme code.

I didn't have problem with the C part.

> scheme's use elsewhere, such as the config files are not IMO real
> show-stoppers to anyone, only deterrents.
>
>
> I wouldn't describe myself as a fluent in scheme or LISP (or any
> functional language for that matter), but I really never found the bits
> we use to be a show-stopper.

Not a show stopper for me either. It's just painful enough to make me 
chose another project to hack most of the time.

Regards,

Igor2