On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 16:17, Thomas L. Bevan wrote:
> I did a little bit of background reading on the new portage development.
> I was wondering whether the debate over the new implementation language has 
> been settled.

There really isn't a debate; an initial exploratory prototype is being
written in prolog, after which a set of requirements and design goals
will be written up, and will be used to select the language(s) that will
be used for the implementation. 

Our exploratory prototype is being used to see what is possible, and
will help us to develop our vision for the next portage.

> If not, I'd like to suggest 'Haskell' a lazy functional language with a good 
> FFI.

OK, it will be one of the languages we will look at.

Regards,

Daniel