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On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 02:33:35PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Jul 6, 2017, at 12:26 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, John Doty wrote:
> >> Is there anybody except you that understands how to write a back end for your gnetlist?
> > 
> > By now, the refactored code is 100% compatible with existing Scheme code. That is, you don't have to write a backend any differently than you did before.
> 
> But that’s no advance.
> 
> > 
> >> He’s using our traditional foundation, Scheme
> > 
> > Scheme is not "our traditional foundation", it's something which has been patched onto gEDA/gaf in an ugly way.  It seems to work for some people but it definitively doesn't make maintaining the code an easier task.
> 
> A valid criticism, but Vladimir is moving the boundary so that more functionality is implemented in Scheme. That’s especially helpful to me because more is therefore exposed to customization.
> 
> > 
> >> to refactor and improve both schematic capture and netlisting.
> > 
> > That is what I don't get: I already did this, and if you could be bothered to look at the result, you had to agree that it is much easier both to understand and to use with your own code (formerly nearly unthinkable) than the old gnetlist code.
> 
> I *did* look at the result. It was not easier for *me* to understand (obviously it is for you).
> 
> > 
> > It took me a lot of time and effort to bring it into a well-readable form while keeping it perfectly functionally equivalent.  I don't have the impression that Vladimir is even trying to achieve this with his current approach.
> 
> To a Schemer, Vladimir’s approach is more transparent. But the real question is whether either approach will attract add-on authors the way Ales’s Scheme API did.

Roland, John,
Thank you both for your criticism.

John, thank you for your support!

I agree that the issue of creating of a convenient and useful API
is very important (incindentially, just now I'm watching a SICP
lesson touching this problem :-)). Good API and good documentation
have the advantage over code readability (IMO, after using LaTeX
and reading the code of some its packages). That does not mean
that I don't care about code readability and comments ;-)

-- 
  Vladimir