From: Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>
Subject: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go!
Date: 09 Jul 2002 12:02:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adp1md7d.fsf_-_@gundla.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it>
Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> writes:
Hi,
> some time ago we had some talk about a possible language
> replacement for Perl. Python was investigated as a possible
> choice, but it had very poor regex support. I'm now glancing
> through Ruby (www.ruby-lang.org) and it smells like a very good
> choice ...
Hey guys, what are you talking about? Why should anybody replace
texexec and such like? Who should replace it? Who should maintain it?
Let us get back to reality. The person who writes a program decides on
the language to use. Everything else is unrealistic. There are endless
nicer languages then perl out there. But this is just an academic
argument. Not a real world argument. Let us focus on more needed stuff
like editor support, better integration in TeX distributions etc.
Patrick, who is shaking his head because he does not understand why...
--
I'll fade into the darkness
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-09 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-08 16:32 hi Hans Hagen
2002-07-08 23:40 ` hi Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-09 1:54 ` hi Glenn R. Williams
2002-07-09 7:01 ` Re[2]: hi Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-09 7:15 ` hi Serge Stinckwich
2002-07-09 9:26 ` hi Berend de Boer
2002-07-09 9:57 ` hi Serge Stinckwich
2002-07-09 10:14 ` hi Axel Rose
2002-07-09 10:00 ` Re[2]: hi Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-09 10:15 ` Serge Stinckwich
2002-07-10 8:44 ` hi Fabrice Popineau
2002-07-09 10:02 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2002-07-09 21:39 ` Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go! Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-09 22:19 ` Patrick Gundlach
2002-07-09 23:01 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-10 8:27 ` Hans Hagen
2002-07-10 11:49 ` Re[3]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-18 14:06 ` Re[2]: " Ed L Cashin
2002-07-18 15:39 ` Hans Hagen
2002-07-19 15:21 ` Ed L Cashin
2002-07-19 16:10 ` Arun
2002-07-18 18:46 ` Johannes Hüsing
2002-07-19 15:27 ` Ed L Cashin
2002-07-19 5:45 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-07-09 23:32 ` John Culleton
2002-07-10 7:28 ` Taco Hoekwater
2002-07-10 20:44 ` Johannes Hüsing
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