Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Naba Kumar wrote:
>
> >
> > Ben Ford wrote:
> >
> > > > > What I propose is to make
> > > > > popular scripting languages like Python and Perl (I
> > > > > have nothing against lisp
> > > > > dialects, but there are much more programmers who
> > > > > know Python or Perl than who
> > > > > know lisp) a requirement of gnome (so e.g. gnome
> > > > > won't run without them), and
> > > > > so that bindings for these languages are shipped
> > > > > with gnome, and it would be
> > > > > highly appreciated from utility authors to write
> > > > > their utils not in C, but in
> > > > > either Perl or Python. This will result in
> > > > > availability of a ton of
> > > > > feature-rich, polished and intelligent and helpful
> > > > > utilities available with
> > > > > gnome.
> > >
> > > And it will also result in at least one fewer Gnome user.  Me.
> > >
> >
> > And me. :-).
>
> Why should you care what language a useful tool is written in?  For many
> tasks, there is no noticable speed or CPU usage problems when choosing a
> scripting language.  Often these languages let the programmer write
> shorter programs that are less likely to have bugs in them.  Why is this a
> bad thing?
>

Well, I think it doesn't matter in which scripting language the tool is
written.
The languages were designed to suit perticular domain of programming
task. If it weren't, don't you think there will only one programming
language?

So IMO, it doesn't matter what language a programmer chooses, as long
as he/she chooses the right one.

Imagin writing a multithread FFT (fast fourier transformation) program
written in perl or lisp. And imagine writing a database search and replace
program in C.


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Regards,
-Naba

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