Scripsit Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If people find Perl too hard (feh), and python too ugly, > regressive syntactically, and counter intuitive, and want ruby, or > scheme, or haskell, what then?
Unless there is a requirement that maintainer scripts have to be shipped in an ascii-based format (and TTBOMK there is not), Scheme and Haskell should be fine even now. Build-depend on an appropriate compiler, compile the script at build time, and ship the binary. The problem arises only when people want to write infrastructure scripts in languages that need an interpreter to run. -- Henning Makholm "... popping pussies into pies Wouldn't do in my shop just the thought of it's enough to make you sick and I'm telling you them pussy cats is quick ..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]