I'll forward this for Rasat as he only sent it to me but I expect it was for
all.
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Subject: Re: [arch-projects] Keeping the list alive!
Date: Monday 01 Aug 2005 15:45
From: Rasatmakananda
.... the selection of language is also part of Arch's concept of KISS. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13576
This is surely from a programmers perspective, i.e., languages that make programming easy. I really don't think that language choice was part of Judd's vision, since he's a C programmer.
Not Judd's vision but somehow the choice of C and Bash were the right languages making Arch an ideal distro where users can easily hack and configure as they want. This is the main factor in Arch. Not only a product to use but anyone who is interested can easily develop on their own or join in Arch development. What I am trying to say here, most of the Archers are "devs" in one way or other, or learn to become because of user contributions. Therefore loves in products/projects what is simple in performance and easy to help/hack for further improvement. If one sided, the language is too troublesome to read/hack, they may still use the product but will not show interest. The Arch Way: "Don't let configure tools / GUIs control the system but be controlled by the user". In my recent understanding, this principle applies not only, not to be controlled in configure matters but also not to be depended what tools offer. A tool should be hackable to be able to makes things as user want..... not what the tool want (smile). Rasat