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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive?
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Stefan, It is very telling that almost none of the symbol generators
or other small scripts and etc written by users and even the
developers use scheme. I see a lot of python, perl and etc.



On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Ouabache, your distro does not allow for development or unstable versions?
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 08:32 -0700, Ouabache Designworks
>> (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> You also have the big issues like the choice of scheme as gEDAs
>>> scripting
>>> language and the gEDA file formats. Is there anything to gain by
>>> changing
>>> and if so then what would be better and how do we transition?
>>
>> I know that some people really like scheme. And I do admit that lisp
>> like languages are very powerful and interesting. But they are not very
>> popular by average people.
>>
>> I see the main problem in mixing C and scheme, which makes thinks more
>> complicated. Maybe that mixing was not a bad decision 30 years ago, but
>> today I would prefer only one single language for all. (Python or Ruby
>> seems to be not bad and fast enough, but my impression is that Nim or
>> Crystal are even better choices today.)
>>
>> For File Format: I was thinking about using JSON or YAML beside the
>> gschem format. The effort for that should be very low, but currently I
>> see no big benefit. XML may be an other alternative.
>>
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