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Yes for a regular *nix user knowing bash, C and how to parse a
makefile is nothing. Plus to just use gEDA you have to know Spice to
make a lot of models work. I guess Guile is ok I guess but now you add
Haskell? How many languages does it take to do EDA?

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bob Paddock <bob DOT paddock AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 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".



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