[darcs-users] Re: darcs issues

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Tue Dec 21 00:45:32 UTC 2004


Karel Gardas wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I'm new here at this party.  I've been trying to follow with close
>> interest the various SCM developments for the past years.  I think what
>> I've read so far regarding darcs tells me that the design is very
>> interesting, and perhaps darcs would be a great candidate for world
>> domination(tm).  There is one major stumbling block - and I would guess
>> it may have been discussed here before - which is the implementation
>> language.
>> Haskell is not exactly your main stream language.  I wonder what you
>> think
>> of the idea of a re-implementation in a more main stream language.  I
>> think anyone who likes elegant languages would probably like Python,
>> which is very widely available.
> 
> Perhaps the best would be to look into the darcs' AUTHORS file and think
> if you are really sure that you would see more contribution in case of
> using different implementation language.
> 
> I personally find haskell darcs related hacking very fresh experience in
> my professional career. Thought I'm perhaps a bit biased since I always
> like new/novel/not-common good computer language designs...
> 
> BTW: What do you consider to be not-so-elegant on Haskell? What about to
> give modern FPL a try?
> 

You misunderstood the question.  I believe Haskell is elegant.  But, Python
is much more widely used and available.





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