On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Carlos Paz wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > Jon Nelson wrote: > > > >> > >> I hope you are kidding. tcl? who uses that anymore? > >> If not, then why not shared language support for any of Python (best), > >> Perl (icky ;-), shell and others. Oh, wait, I've got it! Why not make > >> maildrop take on all of the properties of all languages! > >> > >> I'm with Sam - I hate bloat. If he wants to write shared module support > >> for it, then that's fine. > > > > > > One school of thought will conclude that maildrop would become bloated > > if it included one of those very large languages. Another would, > > however, conclude that maildrop is bloat because it does not take > > advantage of what already exists, introducing new and unique code into > > the system, and requiring new and unique skills of its users. > > > > Just the devil's advocate in me. I'm of the former school. > > > Many useful, fail-safe maildrop recipes are bloated with expensive forks > for file test operations, but who cares! maildrop itself is not ... > > should we go back to writing machine code? anything else is starting to > seem bloatware ... > > File check operations are very useful and I fail to see the excessive > complexity added to the language parser/global code to support them. > > If this features were added under an optional build flag, I'd bet that > almost everyone would enable it on installation.
I wasn't against adding file-check operations. Indeed, I never made that claim. -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep. Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
