On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:37:13PM -0800, John Eaton wrote: > Free Software means never having to say "now what do I do" when your closed > source vendor goes belly up.
been there, done that. It was a shame. Cadnetix was a sweet tool, but it would only run on SunOS-4 which meant you had to maintain an old OS on old hardware just for 1 tool which became frozen in time. > I did like his suggestion about perl. Make a perl wrapper for gschem > that set's up the menus and > all the initial values and have it call compiled geda code to do all the > real work. That would make > it easy to customize for any end user Regarding "Scheme is just a bit too alien for most people, even well educated people, especially well educated people.", I guess you could modify that to say "... especially well educated people except those who are especially well educated." After all scheme is the first languange CS students at MIT use ;) There are many who say SICP is the greatest CS book written... But I will conceed that scheme is not what most people are used to. -Dan --
