Re: Preferred language?

What I don't like about bash it's the feel I have it's overused, it's great
when you have to launch but if you have to do anything else (modify a
variable in a certain way) the lack of language features makes necessary
using programs for everything resulting in code which is far away from
being readable.
(Hint: the main use i will give this language is building "things" :P)
El 27/3/2015 19:34, "Benjamin Bruheim" <[email protected]> escribió:

> Many of the existing tools are written in shell scripting. I recommend
> looking at it because it is very well written. But since it is bash it
> interfaces with any other executable, so python is a good second pick.
> However if you intend to do stuff that involves a lot of calls into
> other executables/scripts or filesystem processing then you should
> consider bash.
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Sergio Tortosa Benedito
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well I'm writing this e-mail because I want to know which languages do
> you
> > know/prefer since I might write some tools.
> >
> > *Python: pretty much industry standard
> > *Ruby: meant to be fun, higher DSL capabilites
> > *Lua: fast,small and also DSL capable (with some trickery)
> > And now some other which are not so known but interesting:
> > *Nim: Python + Pascal with the highest grade of metaprogamming I have
> ever
> > seen
> > *Crystal: Attempts to be compiled ruby.
> > The interesting thing about crystal is it's typing  system which is a mix
> > between dynamic and static, it's dynamic because var=1; var="hello"
> > works,it's static because the variable's types are known at compile time.
> >
> > As anyone may infer, one feature I find interesting it's metaprogramming
> so
> > we can write a small DSL (Domain Specific Language) and simplify code.
> >
> >
> > Now my opinion: From the list the one less suited for the job it's Lua
> (it
> > lacks some syntax sugar,also lacks standard libraries with support for
> some
> > basic operations, and even though they exist, they are external).
> Python's
> > limitations in metaprogramming may make a disadvantage.
> >
> > Anyone having feedback or any suggestion feel free to answer.
> >
> > (PD: I'm sending this here because I find the devel list it's pretty much
> > dead)
> >
> > --Sergio
> >
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