Re: Preferred language?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:39:17PM +0100, Sergio Tortosa Benedito 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.

Are you so flexible?
 
> *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.
 
I'm not a great critic of languages, but I've had lots of
fun with Perl, written/maintained a decent-sized app with its (20k
lines.) Interesting that it no longer makes people's
lists. I guess it's like brussels sprouts, people love it or
hate it.

There is also a community around a language, and an ecosystem of
libraries, so it's not just the language itself.

Debian has used perl quite a bit for administrative tasks.

cheers and happy hacking (in whichever language)

Joel

> 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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Joel Roth