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On January 10, 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On January 10, 2009, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2009-01-10, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On January 10, 2009, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 07:05 -0700, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > > On January 10, 2009, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 06:11 -0700, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > > > > If you don't mind being the sole maintainer of said scripts.
> > > > > > > Unless of course others here do python.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Python is designed to be easily readable by anyone, even
> > > > > > non-programmers (whether it succeeded or if that is even possible
> > > > > > is another question of course). So I think it would be the best
> > > > > > choice for such scripts.
> > > > >
> > > > > Except that a couple/few of the other maintainers don't (and at
> > > > > least one wont) use python.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but shell scripts just are, well, meh.. they aren't even a
> > > > programming language with any kind of design behind them, they are
> > > > just ugly and full of weirdness.
> > > >
> > > > But yeah, we will never find something everyone likes - both of us
> > > > can't read Haskell which Peter probably would prefer over shell
> > > > scripts, I never would touch Perl which you would prefer, you never
> > > > would touch Python which I would prefer :)
> > >
> > > Which is why I didn't start talking about what I think of python ;)
> >
> > Luckily the solution is simple. Since the scripts are trivial, we might
> > as well write them in C. Or rather, C++ to use std::string.
> > Then you wouldn't need to install anything extra on Windows.
> >
> > Yes, that's a serious suggestion.
>
> I don't mind.
I'm just sad we dropped makedoc. I put a lot of work into the perl and C code.
:(
> > Peter
> >
> >
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