Wow, so many languages, that's cool! But unfortunately I can't pick any language which anyone would be able to use, because everytime there would be someone who doesn't know it, I am really sorry, however learning c# is definitely easy, I've been programming in c++ for many years and when I started with c# it took me less than 1 day to get over basics. I assume that c is like english in programming and some of languages you mentioned have c or similar syntax. I don't know if java is a language which is mastered by more people than c# and I don't even want to start discussion on that topic. :)
If you believe that current bot is better or that more people would like to maintain its source feel free to insert it to svn, and later when it is ready to labs (since I don't know java I am really unable to help you with that). I didn't want to start a war what language / bot is better. Thanks to others who like it (or not) for comments, I didn't know that anyone is actually using it since it's running 2 days and let me know if you wanted to insert any other feature :) On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Friesen <li...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: > I know Java, PHP, JavaScript (ES5, Harmony/.next too), Ruby, Python, and > Bash. I could even do Common Lisp. Lua too. > I've looked at and used some of various sub-languages. Scala, Groovy, > Traceur, Coffee Script, I suppose you could count Rhino too. > ((If you want to get into the old stuff, I used a few types of BASIC and > Game Maker Language when I was younger)) > ((Oh right, I suppose technically I did use a bit of Objective-C when I > was looking into iOS development)) > > I DON'T know C#. > > I'll probably learn most of Perl, Erlang, Haskell, and C/C++ (maybe Vala > too) before I touch C#. > > C# feels like our OCaml code. Something written in a language almost none > of us can write such > that once the one person who wrote it initially disappears the code starts > to go stale and rot. > > > What would be really nice would be to see the code that runs mw-bot > committed and running on labs. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:37:09 -0800, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't know java, and no one else is actually maintaining the java >> code of current bot. I didn't say that it's bad because it's written >> in java, neither that c# is better, I simply said that it's written in >> java and that no one is working on the code (it's not even in >> repository, anyway I don't think there would be many people interested >> in keeping this version alive). >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:24 PM, John Du Hart <compwhi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I would like to notice that I am now working on rewrite of mw-bot, >>>> called wm-bot (wikimedia bot - it's supposed to serve in various >>>> wikimedia chans), the bot now is supporting exactly same functions as >>>> mw bot + some more, and I think it would be good if we replaced >>>> current mw-bot in future at some point. The reasons are: >>>> >>>> - Old bot is written in java and nearly no one has access to source >>>> code, neither is managing it, the bot is still running without >>>> problems rather thanks to original creator who did a great work and >>>> made a very stable code, extending the bot with more features could be >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> - New bot is in svn (tools/wmib) so that anyone can participate on >>>> development and even on operation of the bot >>>> >>>> - New bot is running on wmf labs so that it should be running on more >>>> stable server with better connectivity and also is better accessible >>>> for others, because apart of toolsever it's no problem to give acess >>>> to service user account to more devs (anyone with svn account can get >>>> access there) so that more people can operate the bot and patch it. >>>> >>>> I converted current database and it's running in #mediawiki-move so >>>> that you can try various commands like (!mediawiki !b <id>), any >>>> feedback on this whole idea and bot is welcome also please before you >>>> start commiting changes to source code, keep in mind that I now work >>>> on splitting it to more files so that we avoid conflicts when >>>> commiting changes, it should be done by today. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>>> >>> >>> "- Old bot is written in java" >>> >>> And C# is an improvement? >>> >>> -- >>> John >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
