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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 06:23:05PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> 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?
From my point of view, the problem here is lack of tutorials with
advertisements and lack of developers who are able/want to immerse into
it. After the second FOSS development wave (started approximately
fifteen years ago) we have lots of people who are afraid of doing
something this way and are waiting for someone who'll do it for them.

Next, (please, don't take these sentences/set of words as something
offensive, I'm afraid I can insult someone by using of wrong
words/expressions since I'm not a native English speaker),
my dear geda developers, I wonder, why John is not in the list of
the geda developers yet? I know he has made significant contributions.

> 
> 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.
I cannot say anything against Python..., however, support of several
languages within one project with lack of man power (if I correctly cite
DJ, since I'm not able to be certain if I understand correctly what I
say in English yet :)) is an overhead for me. Moreover, we already have
a sort of a plan to develop these language directions. The glib library
already used in geda has bindings for several languages including
Python, AFAIK.

> 
> > 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.
I hope I'll have some time to write where using Scheme could be
convenient for usersa

Cheers,
  Vladimir