[arch-general] pacman new generation

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Tue Nov 22 06:06:41 EST 2011


On 22/11/11 12:02, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> The 22/11/11, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht<nsebrecht at piing.fr>  wrote:
>
>>> OP raised one or two benefits of Haskell over shell scripting. He is
>>> right even if it's somewhat partial: many of high-level languages have
>>> very good advantages over shell scripting. I do think pacman could be
>>> much better if rewritten in one of these languages.
>>
>> Isn't pacman written in C?
>
> Yep, sorry.
>
>    s/shell scripting/low-level progrmming languages like C/g
>
> :-)
>
Pacman devs appreciatie patches, or in case you want to port pacman to 
haskell, just do it. ( look for example at how the 64 bit port became 
official )

as wise phrik tells me:

11:05           jelly1 | !toofishes
11:05            phrik | patches welcome


-- 
Jelle van der Waa


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