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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 :)
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>