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On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, John Doty wrote:
> Gschem and gnetlist are old, complex programs that nevertheless have 
> great flexibility. No individual user or developer really understands 
> all of their capabilities.

In the process of refactoring gnetlist, I grokked it thoroughly.

(IOW, I don't think there is an aspect of gnetlist which I don't 
understand.  This doesn't apply to the backends, though.)

> The potential for inadvertent harm when modifying them is great.

This is why I was very careful when porting gnetlist to Python/Xorn, and 
treated porting and refactoring as two strictly separate steps.  The first 
version of the netlister which I posted on this list was ported, but 
almost not refactored; the resemblance to gnetlist was much closer.