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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: Hendrik Boom, dng
Onderwerp: Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.
Dear developpers and maintainers, please continue providing us with
applications written in the language you prefer.

     I have personnal feelings about which languages are productive and 
produce bug-free software and which, in the contrary let you waste your 
time in correcting your bugs and eventually produce wrong result without 
people even noticing. But I am afraid this leads to endless discussions.


     The choice of the language is yours and is absolutely respectable. 
And I am immensely gratefull to you for giving the result of your work 
to the community whatever the language.


     Just the following restriction: please, when your piece of software 
is first of all an API, like dbus is, let it be not too much 
language-oriented. I mean don't force other programmers to think like 
you, or, worse, don't make the API only usable by applications written 
in one language.


     Didier


Le 12/02/2015 22:36, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>          Hey Guys, I would love to have a dispute about languages, but I
>>      don't think it's in the scope of this mailing list. Do you? Excuse
>>      me for having fed it.
> Off topic?  That's already been established, in a thread about what
> scripting lannguage to use for Devuan.  The conclusion there we
> use whatever the scripts were already written in on Debian, rather than
> rewriting everything.

>
> But I think it is still useful to point out excellent, little-known
> languages that might make programming a lot more reliable yet still
> efficient.
>
> There aren't many of those, and some of the best are not well known.
>
> I'd still recommend Modula 3 (except for its bulky syntax) and ocaml
> (on a machine where it runs as native code).
>
> And I think Styx (used in the Inferno project, a successor to plan 9)
> is worth a mention, though I have no experiennce with it.
>
> And would you mind posting in straight Unicode, or even ASCII,
> but without HTML tags?
>
> -- hendrik
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