Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/06/04:42:14
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> read all these curses on Scheme, I understand many of the unhappies did
> not ever tried to read the doc we have and to write any small code
> fragment.
Just for the record: I did. The docs are fine, but scheme is painful. I
did not give up and I did finish a gnetlist backend mini-project that
actually works, and is written in scheme. It took many times more effort
than it would have in almost any other common languages. As this was my
third such lesson about scheme in different projects, it also taught me
not to touch scheme ever again.
> And every time this happens I feel less and less motivation to
> do something in this direction, though I've some useful things written
> in scheme and they help me much while working in gschem.
I am sorry to hear you get demotivated. That shouldn't happen. If scheme
is not to be removed, just declare it, and ignore all the scheme-hate
mails. It's pretty clear that we won't convince you (or others who like
scheme) that scheme is actually bad for us, non-schemers. The same way you
won't convince us that scheme is a good thing. It's symmetrical. We
should just accept this and move on, without anyone getting angry or
demotivated.
Regards,
Igor2
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