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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:04:20PM -0500, Evan Foss wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com> wrote:
> > On 11/18/2012 04:12 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> >> I don't know why guile became the scripting language of geda, but if
> >> you have a look at this, http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/,
> >> you will know what GNU founder Stallman thinks. I guess using guile is
> >> only something for GNU projects due to the license.
> >
> >   Stallman is a bit, erm, crazy, but that has nothing to do with the
> > suitability of Scheme as a domain-specific scripting language.  Guile is
> > but one implementation of Scheme.
> >
> >> Other CAD tools, both EDA and mechanical, use some kind of extension
> >> language. Lisp seems to be used by tools with long history, and newer
> >> tools use anything from python through perl to lua and ruby.
> >
> >   If gEDA moves to Perl as its scripting language, I'm going back to
> > pencil and paper.
> 
> I would like to add python and java to that list of neolithic triggers.

For me it would be Tcl rather than Python.

Now, for long term maintenance, all scripting languages are bad, give me 
some C (or C++ provided you refrain from using the most esoteric part
of the language) header files to compile against.

	Gabriel