From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51795 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ruby or perl or lua or ... Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:19:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5CE860.10702@wxs.nl> References: <50d1c22d0907141209t19f5d4bfx503def4e2ff1e36e@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00907141223y5b0beec8rf5caf615cab6a9e2@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247602837 25816 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 20:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:20:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 14 22:20:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQoUH-0004ah-ML for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2021FB77; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02263-03-4; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057F31FB7F; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3242B1FB7F for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02264-04-5 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E731FB1F for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6EKJilN023297 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:19:44 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.107] (unverified [10.100.1.107]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 26846-1840426 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:19:44 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00907141223y5b0beec8rf5caf615cab6a9e2@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.107 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 260817975 - 75c68431b05a - 20090714 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51795 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 21:09, ivo welch wrote: >> hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer >> language in the future? > > (even though I'm not Hans ...) > > No. At least TeX, lua and metapost will probably stay, so that already > adds to three languages :) :) :) > > If talking about scripting (ruby, perl) ... in ideal world it should > all end up being lua only (until the next language comes to the > horizon), but there might not be enough motivation to rewrite *all* > the existing scripts, so some of the older scripts (texfont etc.) will > probably stay in ruby/perl for a while/forever unless somebody else > rewrites them or unless Hans will need them. we'll see how many context+pdftex users are around in a few years from now; of course i'll have a few existing workflows that use pdftex (and probably for many years) but one seldom needs to generate fonts for that actually yesterday i had to update a pdftex based style and generate tfm's for an ttf font and of course the font was so bugged that i needed fontforge to turn it into a proper pfb file with adobe encoding; the original had a completely messed glyph names; interesting is that mkiv/luatex works ok with that font but of course the unicode vector in the pdf will be flaky as well Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________