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Re: choice of implementation language
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: choice of implementation language |
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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:32:47 +0000 |
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So gnulib-tool is a 4500 line shell script which you would
like to re-implement to ease maintenance, with the side benefit
of possibly being a bit faster? If performance was the main
reason it would probably be quicker to hack on bash a bit
to speed it up.
If you really want to re-implement it, then for the problem
domain I would suggest a scripting language.
You mention python has backwards compatability issues.
I wrote a large enough python program against V1.52,
which only needed 1 trivial tweak to be compatible with 2.x
That's 8 years or so now of compatability.
I've just started with perl myself (and compared to python
I hate it :)), but given that the autoconf etc. are written in perl
I would think it's the best choice?
cheers,
Pádraig.
Re: choice of implementation language, Micah Cowan, 2009/01/06
Re: choice of implementation language, Sam Steingold, 2009/01/07