Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-14 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 09:27:57 AM Didier Kryn wrote: > No no , T.J. , I don't think your emails are a nuisance. I was > rather thinking of mine, having expressed all sorts of frustrations on > this list while the good guys are silently doing the job we are all > waiting for with great

Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-14 Thread Jaromil
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, T.J. Duchene wrote: > Such discussions can be productive if they remains civilized, and does not > distract from the overall work of the project. If my recent discussion with > Steve Litt about C, etc has been considered a distraction, I will be happy to > remove it to pri

Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-14 Thread Didier Kryn
No no , T.J. , I don't think your emails are a nuisance. I was rather thinking of mine, having expressed all sorts of frustrations on this list while the good guys are silently doing the job we are all waiting for with great hope. I was just thinking it was not very polite, and therefore I

[Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-13 Thread T.J. Duchene
> Dear developpers and maintainers, please continue providing us with > applications written in the language you prefer. That is always an appreciated request, Diedler! =) > I have personnal feelings about which languages are productive and > produce bug-free software and which, in the con

Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: ... > > Just the following restriction: please, when your piece of > software is first of all an API, like dbus is, let it be not too > much language-oriented. I mean don't force other programmers to > think like you, or, worse, don'

Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-13 Thread Didier Kryn
Dear developpers and maintainers, please continue providing us with applications written in the language you prefer. I have personnal feelings about which languages are productive and produce bug-free software and which, in the contrary let you waste your time in correcting your bugs a

[Dng] OT: Programming languages again.

2015-02-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >     Hey Guys, I would love to have a dispute about languages, but I > don't think it's in the scope of this mailing list. Do you? Excuse > me for having fed it. Off topic? That's already been established, in a thread about