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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 05:09:38
Message-Id: 20191229180921.425f1bfa@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams by Aaron Bauman
1 On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:19:18 -0500
2 Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Ah, you found the Achilles heel. It is much easier to postulate on the mailing
5 > list, use big words, and then say you just won't do that thing because
6 > tools/languages such.
7 >
8 > Perl though...
9
10 FTR: Even though I'm good at Perl, I wouldn't use it for this task.
11
12 There are a lot of reasons behind this.
13
14 But at least one of them would be if I wrote it in Perl, I'd have
15 nobody else contributing either.
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17 And IME, that's fair enough.