Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I am curious to know why tcl, my fovourite scripting lanuage, would
>> not be a candidate.
[...]
> Wow, it's a lot like you can't read.

It is more an academic question. I wanted to know more objective
critera than personal preferences when selecting a scripting
language. That perl is prefered, is understandable: it is one of the
oldest and very early on BSD. Tcl is also as old and evolved,
but its existence is today almost ignored. And I really do not
understand what new brings python that is today so in fashion,
the idea that indentation has a semantic does not make me entusiastic.

Rodrigo

No comments:

Post a Comment