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The community of developers had a different make up 4 years ago. My
opinion on things is somewhere between John Dotty who is asking for
people to use rigger in PCB and is still developing using Scheme and
Igor2 who acknowledges that Scheme is harder to find developers for.

Imagine if the source was written in PL/I. How much development in the
future would you expect it to get?

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 2:10 AM,  <karl AT aspodata DOT se> wrote:
> Igor2:
>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:32:01AM -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 think there's another side of this story.
>>
>> Current situation is that scheme being the only language at some parts of
>> project. Many others, including me, suggest there could be support
>> for other languages as well, or if that's not possible, at least more of
>> the core functionality should be moved from scheme to C so that bindings
>> to other languages are possible.
> ...
>> When writing new code, wherever possible consider using C instead of
>> scheme. If anyone later on tries to provide bindings for another
>> languages, he needs to do the C <-> scriptlang binding, and doesn't need
>> to reproduce scheme code in C or another language and doesn't need to do
>> scheme <-> scriptlang bindings.
>
> Scheme is preferred to C, as this thread shows:
>
>  http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/May-2011/msg00556.html
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
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