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Re: Standards for programming languages
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Standards for programming languages |
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Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:24:43 +0200 |
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Hi,
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> skribis:
> I changed the GNU Coding Standards to say that we no longer
> prefer C to other such languages.
Thanks for doing this.
+speed, the best language to use is C. C++ is ok too, but please don't
+make heavy use of templates. Other languages commonly used in the
+free softwre community, such as Java, Python and Ruby, are ok too.
(Typo here: “software”.)
What about mentioning Scheme here?
(BTW, C++ templates allow meta-programming similarly to Lisp macros,
only in a more restricted way.)
Ludo’.