Re: Preferred language?

2015-03-27 20:43 GMT+01:00 Joel Roth <[email protected]>:

> 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?

Well, pretty much as long as is not Java I'm (and preferably C/C++) I'm
pretty much OK.


> > *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
>
I have also heard about Perl for administration, but truth is I don't like
it, neither the language nor the stale state it is right now (not that I
have used that much, pretty much only in a subject).

As for the community or the library all of them (except Crystal) have a
helpful community (even though Nim's one is small, you can get it's author
to help you, whichi is awesome), when it comes to the libraries I thought
that as long as it haves a good string manipulation library I think we are
pretty much covered( I can't think of anything else which is needed as it
not available as command).

--Sergio

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