Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:32:29 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <xzpd638s25u.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> (David O'Brien's message of "Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:00:12 -0700") References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707043251.GA35651@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062345.24117.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes: > I think that everyone that bitches about CVSup being written in Modula-3 > hasn't looked at what the language features of Modula-3 are (OO, good > exceptions, threading built into the language, simple GUI, ...) that they > grossly underestimate the effort to write CVSup in some other language. The problem is not the language itself, but rather the lack of good, portable implementations of said language. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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