Re: [Syllable-developer] High level language (was: Syllable build system)

[Henrik I. <he...@bo...>]

> xsdg wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:30:37 -0400
> > Jon Doda <jd...@sy...> wrote:
> >>That being said, a language agnostic scripting interface is really the
> >>only way to go.  People should be able to develop in whatever language
> >>they feel most comfortable.
> >
> >
> > As far as I know, this part has already been accepted.  I was only
> > discussing the default language that would be used (for install scripts
> > and whatnot)
>
> Well, as the default language Ruby is definitely the wrong choice.  We
> want to make it as easy as possible for new people to start hacking on
> Syllable, and forcing them to learn a new language to do it isn't going
> to help.  A language with a much larger pool of users, like Python or
> Perl, would be a better option.

I don't know enough about Python or Ruby, so I don't know which one of them
would be the best choice. But I definitely don't think that this decision
should be based on how many users there are for each language. If we build
our system by quantiative norms, we would end up with a copy of Windows XP!

"So, why make an OS of our own? An OS with a much larger pool of users, like
Windows or Linux, would be a better option......" ;)

Ok, I do realize that there is a point in choosing a language that we know
(belive) will live on, and a language that people actually know how to
use... :)
(But perl is out the question as a default scripting language, simply
because it's to hard to learn, and IMHO written for (and by) unix
hackers...)

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Kind Regards,
Henrik Isaksson