Prolog yep once upon a time. From my view point there is already a sizable investment in scheme by the geda users and it seems good enough. I havn't time to do more then I already am and so I plan to finsh what i started. Others are of course more then free to rewrite or add a prolog layer or anything else they like.
Steve meier Dave N6NZ wrote: > Chris Albertson wrote: > >> Have you looked at Prolog? >> > Yes, indeed. Quite fluent at one time in the past. > > For DRC, I envision a language specific to the problem domain of > specifying DRC rules. It might compile into Prolog, or guile, or > whatever, but the typical user is not going to want to learn Prolog > simply to add a couple of in-house or technology-specific design rules > to a rule database. > > Guile and Prolog serve the same purpose as assembly language. > > -dave > > > >> People have written very complex programs in Prolog, several so called >> "expert systems" >> > People including me. But a toy one, not a real one. However, I did > once have the dubious honor of managing a development project heavily > invested in a major production application coded in Prolog. We moved > off the platform in the end for reasons of code maintainability, and > secondarily performance. > > >> and it would be a good way to implement features like >> autoplacement and autorouting. >> > Perhaps, as long as your PC board was under 3 square inches and two > layers, and you don't mind radically suboptimal results. I'll pass. > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
