Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser
John Belmonte dijo [Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:20:59AM -0400]:
> Lua is a modern high-level language. Its 15K stand-alone interpreter
> depends on only two libraries which total less than 200K. The
> functionality of its standard libraries are limited by ANSI C, but there
> are are third party libraries for talking to the OS, such as a POSIX
> library.
>
> Someone less averse to prefix notation than I might make the same
> argument about scsh. It's larger and has more dependencies, but on the
> other hand has full library support for system programming.
>
> Why not consider tiny languages?
Because of how powerful is Perl? Because of the amount of things that
depend on Perl that currently exist and would be a waste of time to
rewrite? Because Perl might be the best tool for many cases? There are
many possible answers...
Not that coding in Lua, scsh or similar tools is bad. Not that the
regular shells are not up to the task in many cases. Simply that... Perl
seems to be such a powerful language that people would end up installing
it anyway - And if you have an optional package installed in 95% of the
machines, then you have something I would like calling 'base'.
Greetings,
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