>>>> "Mike" == mike fabian
<mike.fabian(a)mail.rhein-ruhr.de> writes:
Mike> Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] writes:
> >>>>> "dv" == Didier Verna
<verna(a)inf.enst.fr> writes:
>
dv> Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> >> These are not useless. It means you can just change the header instead of
> >> all of your source code if your definition of how to access bar changes.
>
dv> Yes, but I'd prefer being able to debug XEmacs, even if it costs me
a
dv> one-or-two-shot sed call on all sources to change "->foo" to
"->bar" once in a
dv> year (century ?).
>
> Well, the solution to that is to move more code into the substrate,
> rather than switching the implementation language to one of the three
> most fucked-up languages alive.
Mike> What are the other two candidates?
There, things are not quite so clear-cut. Among the contenders are
certainly Perl, Tcl, and COBOL.
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