Re: choice of implementation language

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 09:39:06 Sam Steingold wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
> > If gnulib-tool was to be rewritten in another programming language than
> > shell + sed, what would be the good choices?
>
> a popularity contest is not the way to choose a language.
>
> and why aren't you even considering lisp?
> clisp comes with all linux distributions.
> every decent CS program provides at least some lisp exposure, so it is not
> completely unfamiliar to most people.
> things like perl/python/ruby, defined by their unique implementations,
> enforce the "throwaway code" approach.

lisp interpreters are far from common, and no one does real work in lisp.  CS 
students get enough lisp exposure to make them realize they dont ever want to 
touch it again.
-mike

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