An interview with Debian developer Joey Hess: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/11/people-behind-debian-joey-hess-of-debhelper-fame/
[...] Most of the programs you wrote for Debian are in Perl. Do you regret this choice? I love that question! No, no regrets. My only concern is whether the language limits contributors or users. I have not seen Perl significantly limiting the use of anything except for debconf (we had to rewrite it in C for d-i). And I do not notice fewer contributions to my Perl-based code than to other code. I do sometimes regret when someone tells me they had to learn or re-learn Perl to work on something I wrote. But while I'm enjoying writing new things in Haskell now, and while I hope it will mean less maintenance burden later, I don't think using Haskell will make it easier for others to contribute to my programs. Anyway, for me the interesting thing about writing a program is the problem it solves and the decisions made doing it. Choice of language is one of the less interesting decisions. [...] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
