From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8611 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go! Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:32:27 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200207091932.27153.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020708183035.02d2a048@server-1> <472897825.20020709233947@iol.it> <87znx0pmrt.fsf@gundla.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399001 28957 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:50:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Patrick Gundlach , ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <87znx0pmrt.fsf@gundla.ch> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8611 On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:19 pm, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta writes: > > Well, that's precisely the kind of thing where Perl is being > > (ab)used for, and another language would be better :) > Ah, yes, the search for the perfect language. I remember when APL (which was built around the keyboard of a long-departed IBM terminal) was considered the salvation of Western Civilization. Then there was PL/I. It did everything possible, and did it with such inefficiency that even IBM in its heyday couldn't market it sucessfully. I see no fatal defects in texexec, and until one is demonstrated changing languages "just because" seems a waste of scarce Hans-power. There are lots of neat features that need to be added- debugged and/or documented in Context. I wouldn't presume to suggest what should be done next, but searching for the Holy Grail of the more perfect scripting language is pretty far down on the priority list, IMHO. John Culleton __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com