On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 1:05:07 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:17 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>Ruby's nice, but it's built on Perl so I have suspicions on its overall > >>usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the past 4 months > >>daily for work :(.. Ruby's just the new big thing for programming > >>languages, so everyone's into it. Kind of like how Java was compared to > >>C/C++ a few years back. But once everything dies down people will > >>realize that they'll still have to program in C/C++/Perl for real-world > >>applications. > >> > >>Python seems better than Ruby from what I can see, but I really don't > >>like the mandatory indentation thing. Ew.. > >> > > > >Rubies are better Perls. That's the only connection between the two. One > >day, a Japanese programmer got fed up with Perl, and wrote a better > >language (for varying meanings of better). > > > >Its not based or built on Perl in any respect. > > > >Python and Ruby both have the same targets; to speed development time > >and increase programmer productivity. > > But one must make a Perl before one can make a Ruby. Maybe that was what > I was trying to aim for. > > Ruby's nice, but it seems like it's going to be a bit passe in a few > years like Java was for compilable / interpretable languages. > > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
None of this matters My only point is that if you need something quick to explore the format of pkgdb.db or INDEX.db you are pretty well assured of finding a tool you can work with; Perl, Python, or Ruby. If these aren't sufficient use C. The pkg_* tools are written in C so in C they will be modified; but no harm in doing initial exploration and prototyping with something else. Let's stay focused! Duane _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
