On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:18:56AM -0600, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > On 03/02/2015 12:16 AM, T.J. Duchene wrote: > >> > >I was not referring to all the software that depends on them when > >using Debian/Devuan. > > *I was referring to all the software that depends on them when using > Debian/Devuan. * > > Bad editing on my part. Mea Culpa.
Well guys, we need be honest on this point: it's not just a matter of programming languages. If you would like to blame "the modern programming languages" for giving the possibility of having several layers of abstraction, then Perl and Python are definitely the worst examples, since they date back to the late 80s and the early 90s, respectively, and cannot be considered "modern" at all. So the problem is not the language. The truth is that in the last 30 years we have started doing millions new things with computers, and these new needs have unavoidably brought new software and new libraries. Despite I like to keep my programs small, simple and reliable, I believe that it is not possible to set limits to the creativity of coders: let them use all the freedom they need. Unless they use this freedom to break my toys apart, in which case I get nervous ;) I personally don't see the massive usage of Perl or Python *per se* as a threat to the reliability of the OS. I think that bad programming habits in C or C++ are even more dangerous than good Perlisms, as the SSH heartbleed saga has recently shown. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
