Re: [Stellarlegacy-developer] Anyone out there?

[Darren W. <da...@wi...>]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:17 -0400, Satya wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:52:38PM +0100, Darren Winsper wrote:
[Perl]
> Why is accessibility to newcomers an issue?

Well, I meant to refer to the fact that projects written in Perl tend to
descend into big heaps of regex-filled, overly complex code that's very
difficult to understand.  There's a reason the joke "Perl is a
write-only language" exists.

> *No* language is accessible
> to newcomers.

That's not true.  Try to teach someone Brainfuck then try to teach them
BASIC.  Some languages are just easier to pick up than others.

> >2) Python is indeed getting quite popular.  I don't use it much myself,
> >but I can understand why people do.
> 
> I don't think popularity should be the primary condition.

I'm not saying it should, but it should be a consideration.

> The capabilities and the core developers' familiarity should be the primary
> conditions.

Possibly, but our remaining numbers are few and in order to attract more
developers, we need to make things accessible to them.

[Java]
> I consider Java itself icky, but it seems to me that a lot of OO
> languages are icky -- simply due to syntax and namespace issues.

A lot of people find the syntax of Perl somewhat terrible, so I think
we'll just have to chalk it up to personal opinion.

[.Net/Mono]
> You can pretty much count me out by going with .NET/Mono. I know that
> doesn't anything much since no one here knows me (and so has no reason to
> want me) anyway.

But why?  A lot of people have an irrational hatred of anything
associated with .Net simply because it came from Microsoft.  When Mono
is mentioned, they seem to waffle about patent issues, yet can't
actually name a patent that's a problem.

-- 
Darren Winsper <da...@wi...>