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On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, John Doty wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2021, at 9:11 AM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
> > For anyone even a bit familiar with Python, this lowers the entry 
> > barrier for writing custom backends tremendously.
> 
> Not true. Xorn *raised* the barrier for me. I see it as an extra layer 
> of obfuscation beyond the normal obfuscation of using an OO approach for 
> an essentially functional job.

Well, if you think netlist generation is a "functional job" and disagree 
with the object-oriented approach in the first place (leave alone Python), 
then I'm not terribly surprised that you aren't happy with that.

For anyone else, just have a look at the folder of Guile netlist backends, 
pick one, and see if you can tell what's going on.  Then compare this to 
the corresponding Python backend:

http://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/tree/gnetlist-legacy/scheme
http://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/tree/xorn/src/backend

I think this speaks for itself.