Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

al davis wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:19, Jorge Ernesto Guevara Cuenca 
> wrote:
>
> > And i do a question, is gEDA an proper software to use during
> > the formation academical  process? I think yes that, this can
> > be used for that.
>
>
> What is the biggest difference between education now and when I 
> was an undergrad student?  (1968-1972)...
>
> When I was a student we had source for our software and 
> schematics for our hardware.
>
>
> Is software you can't study proper software for education?
>
> I go a step farther ...  is equipment you can't study proper 
> equipment for education?

and for anyone who thinks geda and gnucap aren't "point and click" 
enough for use in school, here is my answer to that.  As a practicing 
engineer I use high $ simulation tools every day.  Sometimes it is true 
that I use a fully integrated graphics environment.  However, on most of 
my simulations of any significance, there is quite a bit of coding 
required and I can't count how many times I've need to go poking around 
in the netlist for one reason or another.  Unfortunately one common 
reason is to figure out what new bug the tools have inflicted on me 
today.  Another is accessing simulator features that the "integrated" 
environment doesn't actually support.

So, I think gnucap with hand creating a netlist is actually an excellent 
way to get started.

-Dan


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