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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Hi Vladimir,

I took a few days off the mailing list and realized just how ridiculous 
this is.  Noone except hardcore Scheme fanboys is pretending that Scheme 
is even a thing any more.

The point you're trying to make (Scheme being to C what C is to assembler, 
etc.) was true at a time when there was nothing around like Python, Ruby, 
or Haskell.  In particular, the reasons you brought up for choosing Scheme 
over other languages are even more true for Haskell.  The reason not to 
use Haskell is also the same as for Scheme: users don't want to wrap their 
minds around some crazy programming language in order to get things done.

Literally the only reason for not immediately removing Guile from gEDA is 
that this would break existing setups.  There is certainly no excuse for 
making gEDA more dependent on Guile.

Your're desperately clinging to a dead horse.  Please don't blame others 
for not mounting with you.

Roland