Re: Preferred language?

You looked at the gobolinux tool code? It is surprisingly readable,
and a good reference if you need to write some real code. I agree that
in general that is true.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Sergio Tortosa Benedito
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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