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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:07:00 -0800
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> On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:07 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> For those who have not seen, I implemented an example program in C
>> using Lua to safely read data defined in Lua files.
> 
> And that is of little use. The schematic and configuration files need to be trivially readable/writable by *any* language that the tool maker chooses (AWK, perl, Python, ObjectiveC, …). The geda-gaf schematic format is already excellent from that perspective. Guile configuration files are less satisfactory. Formats tied to a specific language implementation are not a good idea.

Additionally, it becomes more difficult to create a GUI to edit the data when the data uses a complex file format.

I'd prefer simple configuration and data file formats and save the languages for extensions.

Cheers,
Ed