Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:10:19 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: synth documentation (was: Removing documentation) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1602101301250.31985@aneurin.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <20160210015708.GN71035@eureka.lemis.com> References: <56B9EDC7.1010403@ohlste.in> <56B9F2D6.1090107@marino.st> <20160210015708.GN71035@eureka.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I installed the synth package a couple of days ago, mainly to take a > look. And yes, I agree, if you're happy with the package (I would be), > the Ada dependencies and long build times aren't an issue. I'm sure the > learning curve isn't overly steep, but it was enough to keep me from > running it just for the fun of it. Ada, huh? The Reagan Star-Wars[*] language? I have enough problems with stupid languages like Python (where white-space is part of the syntax; the last languages I've used thus were FORTRAN and COBOL) without having to learn, let's see, my 48th language... [*] Estimated to be a million lines of code, which must work first time. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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