From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ObpRq-0000V8-Bc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:40:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B6D3E0997; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B95BE0997 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Petteri-Ratys-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [193.185.174.114]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AEEDA2968B for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C47E7B2.3020601@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:39:46 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] libbash Weekly Update References: <4C447338.7090401@gmail.com> <4C457BAA.4090708@gentoo.org> <20100720104027.GI6016@gentoo.org> <4C45BABE.4040809@gmail.com> <4C46CD36.2070403@gentoo.org> <4C46D115.4000007@gentoo.org> <4C471954.1090505@gentoo.org> <4C47232F.1050803@gentoo.org> <20100721165547.GH18042@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100721165547.GH18042@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c0e8c555-0964-4f6f-8e20-d2473c7e3e2a X-Archives-Hash: 1ac87c64a79bbd75f0ac9b1db810a697 On 21.7.2010 19.55, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 21-07-2010 19:41:19 +0300, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >> On 07/21/2010 06:59 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: >>> Anyway it's not so related to the project at hand. Still I wonder why >>> not using a quick language (e.g. ruby, python) for this project if th= e >>> aim is to have a prototype. C and C++ are useful if you plan to optim= ize >>> a lot. >> >> Anltr has two mature backends as far as I know: C and Java. My guess i= s >> that most of the people wouldn't approve the latter. >=20 > If you're prototyping anyway, I prefer Java over Python or Ruby, since > Java is much more close to C in semantics. >=20 >=20 One of the goals of the second half of the project is to prototype how the integration with package managers will work. Ideally we would like the project to be usable by all package managers and that's kind of hard to do for paludis with Ruby or Python. Regards, Petteri