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On Jul 27, 2015, at 2:33 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:

> R7RS  a subset of the large version retaining the minimalism praised by educators and casual implementors
> the final report has been available since August 6, 2013

> Not such a joke, but the desirable way forward for gschem improvements, since it will be the least effort path,

Not unless there’s a Guile fork implementing R7RS. Geda-gaf is profoundly committed to Guile, not simply Scheme.

> and scheme is not all that bad for ECAD.  It's a functional language -- everything in parallel. Functional is
> probably a "brick wall" for some programmers.

But it should be easy for EE’s. Circuits don’t work procedurally. Functional composition is much closer to EE reality.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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