Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for
> my own use
Why even do that? Just get the source package for cbb, and you save
the effort of writing it.
> what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C
> (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for
> writing operating systems. I am a retired physicist and in my career I
> wrote many standalone programs for my own use in a variety of languages,
> the largest in Turbo Pascal.
Pascal had too many variants, probably because it lacked essential features.
Each implementer made his own deciaions on what to do for varying-length
strings, dynamically-sized arrays, and separate compilation.
> I could tackle Perl and tk for cbb or try
> Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to
> live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for
> re-writes to accomodate upgrades.
-- hendrik
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