On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 08:38:40PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > It depends completely on the random guy. :) > If you were a knowledgeable advocate of Guile and saw the same risks of > "winging it" with C strings, then there'd now be at least two devs with a > vested interest in a port of the relevant functionality.
All the languages I mentioned -- Modula 3, OCaml, and Guile (as a Scheme dialect that interfaces well with C) would be better than C if your purpose is a lot of string handling. OCaml and Guile are already present in Debian, so they have a natural advantage. OCaml is stically types, which catches bugs fast Guile is a GNU language, which may have some political advantages. -- hendrik > > Instead, I agree with the essence of your response. > > -Jonathan > > > > > On Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:26 PM, tilt! <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Jonathan, > > no please! I was kidding, as indicated by smileys interleaved with my > postings! :-D > > BTW if you have the time to do it, and if you think it brings you > something, why should a random guy from the internet like i be the one > who gives thumbs up or down? > > Should it be your serious intention to present a replacement for the > existing "netman" backend executable that is completely written in a > language i came up with on a whim, by Googeling for LISP dialects, > chances are that it will not be considered. > > In any case, Ennius writes: > > Otio qui nescit uti > plus negoti habet quam cum est negotium in negotio. > > He who does not know how to use leisure > has more of work than when there is work in work. > > Best regards, > T. > > On 09/12/2015 07:39 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Guile it is. > > Just so we're clear-- I am assuming you understand why I want to do > > this, and that you will defend the choice of language against > > bike-shedders and Socratic bombers. (Though of course you don't have > > to defend my actual code.) If both those assumptions are true then > > I'll get started. > > -Jonathan > > On Saturday, September 12, 2015 12:43 PM, tilt! <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > On 09/12/2015 06:04 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > Hi tilt! > > > Is this a serious response? I ask because the other candidates > > > -- an obscure language and a dead language-- were not. > > > > > > If so tell me which dialect to use. > > > > No, it's *not* a serious response. Had i been serious, i had > > requested Guile. ;-) > > > > Best regards, > > T. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
