From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8614 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go! Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:27:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020710102116.0417a280@server-1> References: <87znx0pmrt.fsf@gundla.ch> <5.1.0.14.1.20020708183035.02d2a048@server-1> <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it> <87adp1md7d.fsf_-_@gundla.ch> <472897825.20020709233947@iol.it> <87znx0pmrt.fsf@gundla.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399004 29003 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta In-Reply-To: <587809570.20020710010138@iol.it> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8614 At 01:01 AM 7/10/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > >PG> Giuseppe Bilotta writes: > > > >> Well, that's precisely the kind of thing where Perl is being > >> (ab)used for, and another language would be better :) > >PG> what do you mean by "that" and "where"? > >Creating an editor, for example. i know -) but tk has some great stuff in it, so the perl/tk code is less than the original modula code Oj, sorry I gave that impression ... guess it should have been >just a private mail to Hans :\ never mind; concerning languages: python is probably ok, but i dislike the indentation idea; smalltalk is ok too, but i only played with it, long ago (the original smalltalk books are great), i've read about eiffel and like the language, will look into ruby when i come across, like lisp because it's clean, like modula because i've done a lot in it; i really like tex but occasionally dislike it due to some missing features; i definitely like metapost; i dislike c because of the syntax, but c++ looks better; i have no opinion yet about java but i dislike the slowness of nts; if i remember well, i liked the machine code of the 1802 processor, etc etc Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------