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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:54:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: Scheme, was Re: [geda-user] Thoughts on gschem UI
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2012 06:41 AM, John Doty wrote:
>> Unfortunately, it's written in Haskell,

Whats wrong wit Haskell, or for that mater Erlang (my preferred
functional language)?

>> which effectively means that
>> only its author can write back ends for it.

If he wrote it in such a way that only he can understand it, that has
nothing to do with it being in Haskell.


>   The one comment I will make about the use of Guile in gschem is in the
> context of config files.  Config files should not be executable
> programs.

That was not fixed a long time ago (I pay more attention to PCB than
the rest of the tools)?  I know there was a bug report filed on it and
some work done due that being a security risk.  "Config files should
be parsed, not executed".