Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- From: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- To: <kh_naba 123india com>
- Cc: Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>, Andy Tai <atai gnu org>, <gnome-devel-list gnome org>, <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:10:32 +0800 (WST)
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Naba Kumar wrote:
> 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?
The problem domains of various languages overlap. Many general purpose
languages are successfully used for tasks their creators never imagined.
>
> So IMO, it doesn't matter what language a programmer chooses, as long
> as he/she chooses the right one.
How often is there a single correct choice of language? How often is
there more than one choice that would do the job well?
>
> 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.
I agree that you can make a bad choice of language for a problem. But for
manu GNOME utilities languages like guile, perl and python are not bad
choices.
James.
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