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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] libbash Weekly Update
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:40:02
Message-Id: 4C47E7B2.3020601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] libbash Weekly Update by Fabian Groffen
1 On 21.7.2010 19.55, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 21-07-2010 19:41:19 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 07/21/2010 06:59 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 >>> Anyway it's not so related to the project at hand. Still I wonder why
5 >>> not using a quick language (e.g. ruby, python) for this project if the
6 >>> aim is to have a prototype. C and C++ are useful if you plan to optimize
7 >>> a lot.
8 >>
9 >> Anltr has two mature backends as far as I know: C and Java. My guess is
10 >> that most of the people wouldn't approve the latter.
11 >
12 > If you're prototyping anyway, I prefer Java over Python or Ruby, since
13 > Java is much more close to C in semantics.
14 >
15 >
16
17 One of the goals of the second half of the project is to prototype how
18 the integration with package managers will work. Ideally we would like
19 the project to be usable by all package managers and that's kind of hard
20 to do for paludis with Ruby or Python.
21
22 Regards,
23 Petteri