On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:16:52AM -0600, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > On 03/01/2015 05:56 PM, Tor Myklebust wrote: > > > >The perl-base package pre-depends on libc6 and dpkg. And nothing else. > I was not referring to all the software that depends on them when > using Debian/Devuan. I've never believed that they make good choice > for a required component.
Even more heavily used in Deban is the shell. Would you care to advise its abolition? > Frankly, I've also believe that > interpreted languages should never be used for anything other than a > teaching tool. There's one huge advantage of interpreted languages: The code you see in the editor *is* the code you are running. No compiler to leave an obsolete executable around that you might be executing instead. This is a security issue. > If you must use something like that, at least use > something that supports JIT to native code. I view JIT as a form of interpretation. That's a question of CPU efficency, which in a lot of cases (some mentioned in this thread) does not matter. When it comes to code that's run often, I prefer statically typed languages. A lot of bugs are caught by the compiler, many of them bugs that evade the test suite. It's possible to have a statically-typed intepreter, but such things are scarce. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
