Re: [PanoTools-devel] [SoC] PTButcher

[yuval l. <yuv...@ya...>]

--- "Daniel M. German" <dm...@uv...> wrote:

> A proposal to use a different language will have
> to be approved first.

Daniel,

please allow me to express a different opinion.

I understand your concerns about maintenability and I
also kindly ask Zoran to consider this factor when
making his choice.

However, for the vast majority of users C++, perl,
python, or assembler is all the same, because they are
no programmers.

I'd rather have a working system with limited
maintenance status than no system at all. Zoran has
expressed interest to continue after GSoC and I am
ready to build mutual trust with him and to work
together on *his* project proposal.

I firmly believe that the choice of tools (and the
programming language is just a tool) is the
prerogative of the student, and as long as the
language chosen is a fairly popular one the choice is
secondary to me.

His project will have to be approved, of course, like
any other project, but IMO the choice of language,
especially for such a self-contained tool, should not
be the primary factor on which approval depends.

To me, what counts most is the student's enthusiasm,
his skill, his will to take up a challenge and live up
to it.

Yuv





 
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