On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > The 21/11/11, Thorsten Töpper wrote: > >> Seriously, it's probably meant like this but your mail reads like a >> "Hey why don't you learn $INSERT_LANG_HERE and rewrite your whole >> system." >> >> I've not participated in pacman development myself so I guess I should >> stfu myself, but for me this proposal just reads like a kick into the >> faces of Allan, Dan and all the other people who did so. > > I don't think, so. Or nothing could be discussed because some others did > another choice some time ago. > > 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. > > -- > Nicolas Sebrecht > Isn't pacman written in C?
