... seems like you're describing haskell ...
... now, portage written in haskell would be really something

Il giorno ven 24 apr 2020 alle ore 14:36 Caveman Al Toraboran <
toraboracaveman@protonmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:32 PM, Michael Jones <gentoo@jonesmz.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >   No-no. C++ is a nightmare. A few people want to use it.
> >
> > C++ is an extremely widespread language with millions of lines of code
> written daily world wide.
>
> i think that might be misleading as it seems to
> imply that being a c++ dev is mutually exclusive
> against being a c dev (is it? the languages agree on
> many syntaxes/features).
>
> i think the right way of thinking is as follows:
>
> 1. identify programming features needed to code
>    a reliable pms.  i think most likely all we
>    need is [recursive] function calls and
>    if/else/loops.  the rest probably has to do
>    with algorithms (independent of the language).
>
> 2. pick language that has features (1) and has the
>    largest users base.  if the set of features in
>    (1) is small enough (such as ones i suggested),
>    then the c++ developers should be counted as c
>    developers (because that part is common between
>    c++ and c).
>
> 3. apply occam's razor.  if two languages are
>    equally satisfying points (1) and (2), then
>    choose the simplest one.  but if my thought is
>    correct (that we only need the subset of
>    features in c++ that's already in c), then c is
>    guaranteed to have a greater effective number
>    of developers in step (2).  hence, we will not
>    even need to apply occam's razor to remove c++
>    (unless points (1) and (2) result in a tie,
>    which i don't think it does in this case).
>
> > Lots of people want to use it. Just not people who want to write a PMS
> compliant package manager.
>
> probably same kind of people that are headed to
> blow their legs (and ours) in the process.
>
>
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