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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:16 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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> On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:57 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I assume that they have the best of intentions. I am concerned that many who want change seem to have a poor understanding of what already exists. Certainly if you haven’t mastered Scheme, you have no business changing the existing geda-gaf core. But new tools are welcome.
>>
>> That is a nice arbitrary road block you are throwing up there. I don't
>> know we have more than 3 people right now who could be said to be
>> truly proficient in scheme. Given how endangered Scheme programmers
>> are in the wild I think you are dooming the code to bitrot.
>
> Perhaps in the long run I am, but Vladimir seems quite proficient and eager, so I’m not worried for the present (and I can muddle my way through, too). For the future, we have other possibilities like Xorn.

Using Xorn as you describe really would mean dynamiting the
foundation. Why can't you see something other than black and white
here? It is not like geda was built in one day, in a perfect
immaculate conception. It evolved and you can see that in the code.
How can you possibly be so sure that it can't evolve positively in the
future via added functionality?

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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