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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:18:16 -0900
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Thoughts on gschem UI
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46 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.

Perl                          vs   Lisp

one working implementation         ~4 different half finished ones
weird syntax                       weird undocumented metaprogramming
nice module repository             no repository, just use google :)
embeddable                         depends which one you use
extensible (call C)                I have no idea
one monolithic community           ~4 tiny communities
works fine in vi                   emacs MUCH more painful to extend IME

Language snobbery aside, lisp really doesn't have much going for it.

>   Lisp is used by the ones with long history, but it CONTINUES to be
> used there because it's a very good tool for the job.  Autodesk isn't
> dumping Autolisp for Perl or Ruby. ;)

Its all just momentum.  Nobody is putting it in anything new today.

Britton