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On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:53:56PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Does this mean we should replace Guile with Python?
> 
> I wasn't talking about the technical innards of the tools.  I was
You've done this in another post, talking about stagnation.

> talking about how we present those tools to the users, how we run our
> community, about addressing the age-old problems that plague new
> users, etc.  Turning a heaping pile of disjoint functionality into
> something useful and easy to learn so that we're able to attract new
> users.
Yes, yes, yes.
All this requires someone will spend his/her time on this. Everytime I
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. 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.

> If a particular problem can only be solved by changing some innards,
> then so be it, but the innards change is just a side-effect.

I don't mind. Just let's do it step by step, saving all the fruit we
already have, not destroying anything in a favour of new tools.

Cheers,
  Vladimir