On 11/25/2012 11:44 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>: >> According to the results of the last survey, our users do care about >> performance, so I don't think there's anything excessive about it. Are >> there any hidden costs in maintenance problems? I don't think so. > > Then you're either pretending or very naive. Three decades of > experience as a C programmer tells me that C code at any volume is a > *serious* maintainance problem relative to almost any language with > GC. Prudent architects confine it is much as possible. > Prudent architects also avoid rewrites as much as possible, since it's inevitable that bugs will be introduced that have been fixed in the "official" version. Personally, I think if you'd left your suggestion on "It would be great to have guidelines for python scripts. I propose 2.6 as the minimum required python verison" and left it at that, there would have been very little disagreement. The suggestion that things should be rewritten in python for some spurious long-term savings seems mostly designed to refuel everyone's favourite flamethrower, and you know as well as I do that it just won't happen unless there's at least a chance of some substantial technical benefits from doing so. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html