[arch-general] pacman new generation

Clive Cooper clive at winpe.com
Tue Nov 22 06:40:39 EST 2011


On 22 November 2011 11:20, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> So my conclusion is that when you say "I do think pacman could much
> better if rewritten in one of these languages", then I say that you
> most likely are completely wrong.  The more likely effect of rewriting
> pacman in one of these languages is that the current development team
> would disperse, there wouldn't be as large a pool of programmers to
> recruit from to replace them, and in the end pacman would turn out to
> be worse.

Spot on. I agree 100% with this, well said.

Clive
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