Duane Whitty wrote:
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
>
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
Ok, finally dumped the full database. Will analyze closely later on tonight.
Cheers,
-Garrett
PS If you installed ruby-bdb, simply running "make config" in the
ports-mgmt/portupgrade directory and selecting ruby-bdb1 won't do. You
have to go into databases/ruby-bdb, do make deinstall, then go to
databases/ruby-bdb1 and do make install, or something similar.
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