From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8599 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Gundlach Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go! Date: 09 Jul 2002 12:02:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87adp1md7d.fsf_-_@gundla.ch> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020708183035.02d2a048@server-1> <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398991 28900 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:49:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <2012458027.20020709014025@iol.it> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8599 Giuseppe Bilotta 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