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Re: choice of implementation language
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: choice of implementation language |
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:28:18 +0100 |
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> So I conclude that the choices are
>
> Perl
> Python
> Ruby
>
> If using Perl, we could easily restrict ourselves to
> features of 5.8 or even older. With Python and especially Ruby,
> I'd advocate requiring much more recent versions, due to their relative
> immaturity.
Agreed.
Consider that we do not have to use all the fancy unreadable stuff of
Perl (e.g. lists of lists, which I never bothered learning...). We can
start with a more-or-less direct translation of the shell script,
without all the speed penalties of forking and with the more powerful
Perl regexps.
Paolo
Re: choice of implementation language, Micah Cowan, 2009/01/06
Re: choice of implementation language, Sam Steingold, 2009/01/07