Re: [AD] Documentation system 2009

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Peter