[arch-general] pacman new generation

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> 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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