Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
Dale> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Dale> Sorry about your sour stomach, but to me, one language is
Dale> usually as good as another, as long as there is symmetry and
Dale> completeness to the instruction set.
Within reason. Most assembly is symmetrical and complete
;-). Perl makes things so much easier than sehll in a some cases that
;its no contest.
Dale> Staying within a fixed set of fundamental tools _is_ good integration
Dale> design.
And Perl, IMHO, should be part of that set.
However, we must make the common case simple; and requiring
bare bones build platforms does not strike me as a particularily
common case.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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