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On Jul 3, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 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.

But most netlist generation uses Scheme. Creating a symbol or pseudo-schematic from some simpler representation is relatively easy text processing. My personal favorite language for this is AWK.

For netlist generation, the internal machinery in gnetlist is critical. This is not so trivial, and the API via which you may access the processed data is in Guile (Scheme). It could be another language, of course, but I think the choices are narrower. I don’t see AWK as a practical language here.

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