Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA?

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Going back to the original question.

I think geda and pcb and the simulation tools offer an opportunity to
physics, electrical, computer, and software engineering students, in
that by having the code, they can study and develop the simulation
algorithms. It is all well and good to be able to run a simulation but
is it really acceptable to have a black box that you put circuits into
and get results out of? This is like replacing the teaching of long
division with the teaching of using a calculator. In my opinion... not
adequate.

If you want to come work with me, show me, that you know how your
simulator got to the final result. Show me where the simulation can't be
trusted. Show me how the simulation engine could be improved. Or even
one large step better to have done it. I can't see how this can be done
with proprietary closed source programs unless they make the students
sign an NDA and are given access to their code.

At this moment I would like to thank Dr Pete Knoke for introducing me to
the Minix operating system which eventually lead to me to linux and
other open source projects such as geda. I would also like to concede to
Dr. Knoke the point he took from me in a computer architecture class in
which during an examine he asked that given an unlimited budget, what
technology should be used to build the next generation of supper
computer. This being the late 1980's, when Seymore Crey was trying to
construct his next computer with Galium Arsenide, I insisted that I
wanted my computer to work and selected ECL. Dr Knoke and I exchanged
articles over who was right for the rest of the semester. History has
settled this question and the answer is neither gallium arsenide nor
ecl, the answer is massive parallelism implemented in some version of
cmos or other. But, my answer was incorrect and so I finally (18 years
later) accept the test results.

These are the places that GEDA belongs in Science and Engineering
Curriculum of a Good University.

Steve Meier




Jorge Ernesto Guevara Cuenca wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm working with a friend in a some basic examples (mostly simulation)
> for gEDA show in a university (CUN[1]), this institution began to
> migrate to Sofware Libre and in the process some teachers not has
> convinced to use gEDA in the process of formation of your students,
> some of they say "use gEDA is back years in the simulation software",
> and we don't share this opinion.
>
> 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 do you think about?
>
> Thanks for the time.
>
> [1] www.cun.edu.co



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