Re: Python or Perl for a Debian maintainance project?

[Isaac To <kkto@csis.hku.hk>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

    Andrew> (The idiom here is: check input, acquire resources, process,
    Andrew> release resources, and split those out into other functions as
    Andrew> needed - strict two-phase locking, which avoids deadlocks into
    Andrew> the bargain)

Agreed that it is nicer than version in the kernel.  Indeed, it probably
compile to exactly the same code once you inline the do_setpgid(), so there
should be no performance hit.

    Andrew> It never simplifies code. That's been the whole point for the
    Andrew> past Eris-knows-how-many years. Any time that you think you've
    Andrew> found a use of goto that makes the code simpler, there's another
    Andrew> way to write it without goto that would be simpler
    Andrew> still. Example above.

But this I'd disagree.  Sometimes in C there is really no good alternative
than writing a goto.  In any other language one can probably avoid those
(using exceptions, labeled break/continue, etc).

Regards,
Isaac.