X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=o55UzjtkPva2QSoAxwzqAsDVKRAo8cae/t7MIIQmY3o=; b=uiILSQIgeQ1CwUAVNMXHrQe+Ywe6NRnWIj+R6fnSKCyibSQA1w1Buvif9KQyoD4tk7 4qLg/Vm6eeFAanup5mVDjgy/20jWhJX/Igfo3AXfjxYnLvvikuHoYDtuCX1uvwQFu5Sy asTPWK9fOAptOlmkJqtzE6jOp7zmLHAEo8ccZwZm6Ijqf2CiKbtcyDQvdS7oyo4lPbpL fh7t+6PDm+SCE90eaqRlj/r29Hesju5e7Pg/EO//GbZpo16c8JXlfBlSlIQL3d1Le/V5 MKf75HEpoj/ZXyB2NAGT9Vc5o2px+8fNojfBTU8lHDsbv9OA9xcurg7Tsv5PHXJ1hVLr ePHw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.7.206 with SMTP id l14mr38208152laa.3.1435973831284; Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:37:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <43EFD2E2-AA0B-40DE-BE7D-B460EB022B90@noqsi.com> References: <1435510363 DOT 682 DOT 26 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <20150703030409 DOT 32398 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> <1435942066 DOT 672 DOT 22 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <43EFD2E2-AA0B-40DE-BE7D-B460EB022B90 AT noqsi DOT com> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 01:37:11 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive? From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t641bGqW002130 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Ok. Sorry I had not looked at the netlisting stuff in years. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 1:28 AM, John Doty wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via 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. > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > jpd AT noqsi DOT com > > > -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/