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On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Britton Kerin
(britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/05/2015 11:34 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> >>  Well, considering the fact that I use gEDA and PCB nearly every day,
>> >> *I* am the user base.  And to watch the traffic around here, I'm the
>> >> only guy busy actually USING this stuff!
>> >
>> > I am an user too in that sense. Britton too. We both say scripting is
>> > good, so you are losing this by rate 2:1.
>>
>>   Oh hey, no, I never said scripting wasn't good.  I like scripting.  I
>> just don't like people getting their panties in a bunch when it isn't
>> done in their favorite language so they insist it be changed to suit them.
>
>
> There's no real reason not to support multiple scripting languages, as Igor
> has shown with his fork.

I agree but other people did not. The limitation is in the longer term
with packaging when distros think that it means they need to build
against all of them so that every possible 3rd party script works. It
is also a concern for support/maintenance reasons over having a
polyglot developer base/contribution.

>>
>>   It also really annoys me (and this is nobody's problem but mine) when
>> people complain about Scheme as being "hard".  This is electronic
>
>
> Its not hard, it just doesn't have much library coverage and so is less
> useful than other languages. And lets be honest, all those parens are only
> there because when lisp was invented LALR generalization hadn't happened
> yet.  It makes me laugh that after the fact people call it simplicity.
> Backus had more balls :)
>



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