No no , T.J. , I don't think your emails are a nuisance. I was
rather thinking of mine, having expressed all sorts of frustrations on
this list while the good guys are silently doing the job we are all
waiting for with great hope. I was just thinking it was not very polite,
and therefore I was just trying to moderate what I had said. I know
others have been more pushy than me :-) .
Didier
Le 14/02/2015 02:54, T.J. Duchene a écrit :
>> Dear developpers and maintainers, please continue providing us with
>> applications written in the language you prefer.
> That is always an appreciated request, Diedler! =)
>
>> 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.
> Such discussions can be productive if they remains civilized, and does not
> distract from the overall work of the project. If my recent discussion with
> Steve Litt about C, etc has been considered a distraction, I will be happy to
> remove it to private messaging, with no offense taken whatsoever. I had to
> intention of being a nuisance.
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Since many APIs are stored in C/C++ libraries or accessible via IPC/pipes,
> creating bindings for whatever language you happen to be using is not
> excessively difficult as long as the language you are using supports some form
> of external calling.
>
> If there is something in particular you need help with, please by all means
> post it to the list, and I will help if I can.
>
> T.J.
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