2010/10/5 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vign...@gmail.com>: > On 3 October 2010 09:58, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.faco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here: >>> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users >>> don't code it. >> >> but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier >> for contribution > > No. You are just moving the entry barrier against another dev group > (those who would know perl but not eg C). > And because of the manual memory management of the language you're > promoting, you would both: > - increase the actual barrier entry (need to understand how to > properly do mem management, ...) > - introduce new classes of bugs (and among them a lot of security ones > (overwriting stack and the like)
php/java have memory management. Python ( which syntax is closer to C than perl ) also have memory management. The same for mono ( .Net ), vala, ... >> sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ? > > That's a nop argument. Rewriting from scratch needs more manpower > whatever is the number of tools... sure, but if more people are able to contribute, this could counter balanced this fact . -- Close the World, Open the Net http://www.linux-wizard.net