Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

[Oliver King-Smith <oliverks1@xxxxxxxxx>]

   If you give a 1,000,000 monkeys 1,000,000 typewriters, and give them
   1,000,000 years to write stuff, one monkey will eventual write a Java
   program.  The others just produce Perl scripts.
   I find perl unreadable.  Python, Lua, Java, Ruby, ... I like all those
   types of languages.  Isn't there an open source package that supports a
   bunch of automation with your favorite language (including Guile which
   would maintain a bunch of backward compatibility)?   The main reason I
   don't like Guile is I find it hard to read and awkward to write in.  My
   vision is not the best and I really get messed up on the parenthesis.
   Oliver
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   From: Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
   To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 1:18:44 PM
   Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Task list for: Solving the light/heavy symbol
   problem
   On Thu, 26 May 2011 11:52:04 -0700
   Andrew Poelstra <[1]asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:
   > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:56:40AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
   > >
   > > Opportunity to pick a more modern language, too.  Something more
   > > os-agnostic, we've had issues with scheme on Windows before.
   > >
   > > I'm a Perl fan myself.
   > >
   >
   > Although Perl is probably better for string-handling, I think
   > Python would be a better choice. It "feels" a lot more like a
   > Lisp and quite a bit more well-known these days.
   >
   > It is also platform-agnostic, handles errors more cleanly,
   > and is usually easier to read.
   +1 Python
   -32767 Perl
   I have written a lot of Perl code over the past 15 years, and still use
   it for quick one-liner text processing tasks, but even as a novice
   Python user I must say that my Python code is vastly more maintainable
   than Perl code.  I have found that it always pays off to write clean
   and readable Python code rather than taking what seems at first to be
   the easy way and throwing some Perl together. Sure, you *can* write
   maintainable Perl code, but it takes tremendous effort because there
   are so many quick shortcuts that tempt the author or Perl code, and
   there are a million different ways to write the same code -- not
   necessarily good for maintainability.  A project like gEDA would have
   to have some really tight style guidelines to get consistent and
   readable Perl code...
   Regards,
   Colin
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