Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian
On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:30:22 +0200, Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>
wrote:
>On 2024-12-12 20:51, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> On Dec 12, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>>> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth.
>> We would first need to determine that there is an actual problem.
>> Perl is quite healthy as a language and has aged much better than many
>> other younger languages: e.g. there is no need to update all code every
>> few years because backward compatibility is preserved basically forever
>> at this point.
>
>+1, advantages of Perl should not be ignored.
I disagree violently with all efforts that would waste Debian people's
time to rewrite existing and well-working times just for the sake of
having them in a more "modern" programming language.
That time is much better spent with improving existing tools.
Greetings
Marc
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