From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21583 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Nov 2003 20:38:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19373 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 20:38:06 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:37:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FBC8053.8080808@upfrontsystems.co.za> <3FBCE57C.3070702@upfrontsystems.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3FBCE57C.3070702@upfrontsystems.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Kenv/tjIDjavJdG"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311212137.30534.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.55-uvt5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55-uvt5 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-ng (Milter interface) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage in Prolog: how about logic programming in Python? X-Archives-Salt: 66c1886e-197b-485d-b411-6e8c35481991 X-Archives-Hash: 2073299e58b70a09179950ffce80ee2c --Boundary-02=_Kenv/tjIDjavJdG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 20 November 2003 17:02, Jean Jordaan wrote: > 'lo Pieter > > Thanks for taking a look! > > > However I saw the following warning: > > > > WARNING: The cut doesn't work well in the current PyLog version > > Ah, but as usual with these open source things the next line is > "Any collaboration is welcome ;-)" .. perhaps your prolog zen is > deep enough to disolve the difficulty the PyLog devs saw :] > > > I was under the impression that prolog has very few dependencies > > and is able to interact with most languages (including python), > > My concern as a relative outsider is just that I love to be able > to browse the source of the glue that holds my system together, > namely portage, with some chance of understanding it .. which is > way higher with Python than with Prolog .. that said, PyLog parses > Prolog .. so much for that idea I guess. What is the point in interpreting one language (prolog) in another interpre= ted=20 language (pyton)? It can't be anything but inefficient. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_Kenv/tjIDjavJdG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/vneKbKx5DBjWFdsRAjZTAJ9Zw/llza88r7WHStt843nKQPYNpwCfYhP1 PaiyLSz0mvZqOtv8C38TMqs= =zfY1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Kenv/tjIDjavJdG--