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Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:59:12 -0500
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On 10/06/2015 03:06 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> gEDA shouldn't be dumbed down in
>> order to cater to the absolute beginner, IMO.
>
> I did use scheme in a gnetlist project and in pcb-rnd. It's not that I did not spend time on it. It's that I find it utterly
> inefficient and unreadable. It's not hard in the sense that it's hard to learn or hard to understand. It's hard in the sense that
> I find it hard to read and it takes much more time to achieve what I want than with other languages. And by other languages I mean
> those I don't use and had to pick up along the way, the same way as scheme.


I have to agree.  I have experience coding some parameterized cells and design rule checkers
in Cadence Skill Language, a LISP variant similar to scheme.
Looking at all those parentheses later on, (6 months after wrting only), is like having to solve a maze first to get any 
understanding.

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