On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > >>The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented > >>in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered > >>it in the first place). > > > > > >How is that an advantage of use? > > We're talking about free software. Modifying it to fit your needs is a > perfectly valid, indeed encouraged use. Personally, I know perl, but not > ruby.
Sounds like you need to expand your repertoire a bit. I learnt Perl for exactly this reason -- I wanted to modify debconf, so I learnt (enough of) the language to do so. I didn't feel a need to reimplement it in a language I was familiar with first just so I could make my modifications. Can you imagine a world in which your argument was taken at face value? There would be a reimplementation of basically everything in every language under the sun, just so that some random person could avoid learning a new language. Ghods what a hideous mess that would be. - Matt
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