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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 Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 07:22:04AM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Jul 26, 2015, at 6:28 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 09:06:56PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > ...
> >>> Anyway, the script for gschem is attached.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately, it is all greek, err, guile to me. But good to see that 
> >> this kind of tasks can be tackled in current gschem.
> > 
> > The guile syntax is simple enough, any function has the following form
> >  (function-name arg1 arg2 …)
> 
> Lisp is based on some very simple ideas. Scheme started out as a
> simple, disciplined dialect of Lisp. Guile is a bloated, complex,
> undisciplined implementation of Scheme. Almost 2000 defined symbols
> before you load libraries or user code. The manual is almost 900
> pages. The simple core is still there, but it’s hard to find through
> all of the fog.

This state of things is because of trying to support the new R6RS
standard (and some of main Scheme distributions already support it
completely [1]).

However, R7RS tries to fix this breakage of simplicity by "splitting
Scheme into two languanges" [2] one of which should be simple.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)#R6RS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)#R7RS

Cheers,
  Vladimir