I really do not see need for Python, Perl and other "scripting languages"to be
placed in SunOS. I believe that SUN has to buy "Design Patterns"and
"Refactoring to patterns" books along with "The art of computer science"and
share to their developers to continue developing perfect such importantpiece of
software.
Also, I would like to say that I believe that SPARC will stay on its lineto be
almost the best microprocessor available on the market. If we alltransit to X86
all our knowledge in computer science will worth nothing.
Uros
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:47:22 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions
>
> Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> > Shawn Walker writes:
> >> Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> >>> Yes, Sun has made two big mistakes: Implementing IPS in Python, and
> >>> ditching scripting capability in the packages. I'm sure these seemed
> >> I continue to see assertions that pkg(5) should not have been written in
> >> python with little justification for this claim.
> >
> > Hmmm... I will readily admit that you're working on fixing the
> > performance issues, and improving overall efficiency, so the situation
> > is better now than it was when pkg(5) was first released into the wild.
> >
> > However, there is also the fact that Sun had already committed to
> > a scripting language, Perl. There was a statement that Perl was a core
> > part of Solaris and would always be present on the miniroot. (I am
> > not saying that Perl would be markedly faster here.)
>
> And there can be only one? Doesn't that mean perl was also a mistake since
> Sun had already committed to sh as a scripting language available on the
> miniroot? (Just taking your argument to its logical conclusion - I'm a heavy
> perl user myself, so think both perl & python have their place in the core
> OS.)
>
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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