The 22/11/11, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote: > On 11/22/2011 13:36, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > >You can't seriously be suggesting that switching to Haskell would > >increase the size of the pacman developer pool. Notice I didn't support Haskell. I'm talking about high-level languages in general. Not all of these languages are widely used nor very scalable for a package manager. > > I > >don't think there's any compelling reason to rewrite pacman in another > >language. I already gave some good reasons in this thread, though. > Code language should not be chosen based on popularity. C is used in > most unix-like software because of its quality and not as a > consequence of the available developer pool for it. I tend to agree. -- Nicolas Sebrecht