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On Friday 28 November 2003 09:17, Jason Mobarak wrote: |
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> Arguments for Python |
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> Python is a language with a huge user base, standard library and large |
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> number of third party libraries. |
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> Developer friendly, we have a lot of user submitted patches to portage. |
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> Chances are more people are going to know languages like Python/Perl/Ruby |
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> rather than something else (like Scheme/Haskell). |
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> We already have a several developers who are well versed with Python. |
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> Python's design potential and scalability is quite large... consider |
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> projects like Zope and Twisted. |
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> We already have a lot of portage code that's already written, it's tested |
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> and it works, reordering and redesigned it is going to help portage-ng come |
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> about quicker. |
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[+1] |
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