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[Henry Gilbert]

2009/2/13 Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:45:43AM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I like to class Python, as 'The VisualBasic' of the Linux world. Great
>> > for writing toys, not great for serious work;-P I seriously regret writing
>> > virt-manager in python now. It allowed me to get something pretty working
>> > very quickly, but it has been a long term maintainence disaster of horrific
>> > proportions.
>>
>> So with the benefit of hindsight, which language would you have chosen
>> instead? I'm the first to admit that python has many faults. But I'm
>> not seeing an alternative that's clearly better. Ruby has syntax that
>> doesn't play nicely with my brain *and* is horrendously slow. If you
>> suggest perl will not lead to a maintenance disaster, I will laugh
>> long and hard at you. PHP is worse. Beyond that, you're probably into
>> the realms of esoteric[1] languages, like Haskell, Erlang, OCaml and
>> so on.
>
> As I mentioned in my other mail, all scripting languages suffer from
> more or less the same problem, of only finding errors at runtime. So
> choose the one which you can most easily do automated testing of. Perl
> has by far the best testing capabilities, but of course Perl really
> really *needs* them (even more than most scripting languages). Or
> choose a language which gives you good compile time checking instead.
>
> Daniel
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I really enjoyed C# and was surprised I've learnt it in under 48
hours. That was 5 years ago, I was good at it. I rarely use it now.
And I refuse to go anywhere with Mono.

So I've been looking for a good language to do GUI applications for
Linux ever since. I am not very clever, so the language has to be easy
(or something I can relate to). C# was incredibly easy to pickup. The
free training videos at the time helped. So maybe that is how I learn
fast: good video tutorials.

HG

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