"Bradley M. Kuhn" wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> >
> > > And, it will make the barrier for entry for new internals hacker lower.
>
> Sam Tregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Really? Do you honestly believe there are more Java programmers than C
> > programmers? Particularily in the Perl development community!
>
> Now, I would agree that there are more C hackers about. However, many
> people are graduating college with computer science degrees having worked
> mostly in Java and very little in C. In 6 years or so, we may find that
> there are more Java hackers than C hackers about. But, I agree this alone
> isn't a reason to pick Java.
More programmers != more hackers. For years, universities have been
using languages like Pascal, Modulo and C++, but low-level hacking is
still done in C.
> I don't know if that is proven. We still lack a port to the JVM, while our
> "sister languages" like Python, Scheme, Tcl, Eiffel and the like all have
> JVM ports.
>
> And, if one is in the Microsoft world, the C# architecture will likely be
> important.
Well, if we can make perl code compile to that environment, possibly
with restrictions on the use of eval, that should be good enough.
Implementation language != Target environment.
Hildo
