On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/21 Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Don't waste your time on a language that does 90% for you >> sadly has no compiler to native machine code.
i'd have said the same thing about javascript a couple of years ago. > Meh, "proper" languages are often over rated. Machines are cheap, > developers are expensive, and code lives far longer than most people > hope. to put it another way: computers are getting better and faster, but human brains have been the same for hundreds of thosands of years. > Maintaining well written code is easier than maintaining crap > code, and many of your "prototype" languages promote well written > code. except for perl, of course ;-) > Which leaves the important question: does it matter for OSM? > (and is a full rewrite the best way of fixing it if it does) we'll see soon whether api 0.6 will make things better. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
