[Po4a-devel] Changing programming languages [WAS: Re: Alioth is closing, po4a needs a new home very soon]

[Marco Ciampa]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 10:04:58AM +0100, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Martin Quinson wrote:
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> > If you know how to program in python, you could try to come up with a
> > prototype of po4a reimplementation. I'm getting the feeling that Perl
> > is not the right choice anymore. But the prototype may be difficult
> > because we use the regular expressions so much. Scala would probably
> > be easier, but I would not say that Scala is a much wiser choice here.
> > I dunno what Scala will become in the next decade (which may be the
> > last decade for Perl).
> 
> we could use perl6 :P

or ruby! ;-)

> Seriously, I am not sure that changing languages buys us a lot if we
> don't think through the architecture first.  One question I would like to
> have to explore is "How many of our formats now have canonical or 'really
> good' processors that we could leverage instead of writing new parsers?"

+1

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Marco Ciampa

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