Re: standardizing on a language
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:47:34PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:53:18AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:52:23AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > I don't know anything about ruby.
> > Well, others are going to have to learn as well. As I said, I don't care
> > which is chosen, but I'd like to get others input as well.
>
> One of my problem with this language is, that most of the code I ever
> read described it as another WORN language like perl and I'm completely
> incompatible with such languages.
>
I'm not convinced you actually understand Ruby; it's far from a "WORN
language". If it wasn't, I wouldn't be suggesting it alongside python,
while at the same time saying that perl is a bad idea.
> > > > (ages ago, I wrote half a Kconfig parser in racc;
> > > I have a fullblown parser which is derived from the original yacc and
> > > flex files written in python.
> > Is it functional? I remember seeing you working on it on IRC, but were
> > having problems; does this mean you finished it?
>
> The parser works fine. The parse-tree needs some postprocessing.
>
Where is it? I haven't seen it in svn.
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