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Guillaume is just kidding, and was being sarcastic about me because his
perception was that I said a non-factual thing that Perl made Mandrake
installer prone to crash. What I meant was it's really hard for me to read
Perl code, that's why I said Perl isn't a good choice. In my reality, yes,
I've been an x86 Assembly programmer starting in 1996, and I can still code
in Assembly now. I used to code Pascal too before I learned Assembly.
And yes, Assembly is, in my own opinion (not a factual statement), easier
than Perl\('/`'?\$/ that has a lot of weird stuff. However C++, C, Java, and
Pascal is by far preferrable fo userland development. I won't code userland
application using Assembly anymore unless it's necessary.
Hey, by the way, did you hear that new Bind worm? Do you still want to start
bind by default after install? :-) :-) Well, I don't care, besides I believe
that most of the network services will still be started by default after
install.
Prana
On Friday 23 March 2001 22:43, you wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Yeah, you're right : it probably crashes because it uses Perl.
> >
> > We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and
> > 25% lambda-prolog.
>
> Oh dear! Has it occurred to you to wonder where you can obtain all
> those skills in a single person? And whether that is a good idea?
>
> Both for initial development and for the ongoing maintenance for a
> number of years ...
>
> Stick to a single language, please, and that NOT being assembler.
>
> It is too risky for the company if that multi-skilled person leaves
> or has to be booted out.
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