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On Jul 3, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> The big issue is with people who consider only their favorite languages
> as the only one which is worth to be used in geda.

Yes. Haskell may be the most sophisticated language there is, but how much use has https://github.com/xcthulhu/lambda-geda gotten?

At least among the scientists and engineers I work with, Python is the common scripting language. It’s not a language I personally use much, but I think it’s easy to learn and easy to use.

> While I'm already not
> young (though not so old as John Doty :)),

Hey, Dave called me middle-aged. ;-)

> I've decided to learn Scheme
> and I can say it's a very interesting experience for me.

I have the “advantage" here of having spent decades working in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the air is spiked with a substance that causes one to see Scheme as a way to write actual programs. I suppose that’s why Ales chose it.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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