What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:36:43 +0200, Lutger Blijdestijn
> <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:35:34 +0200, Lutger Blijdestijn
>>> <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm pretty happy that my Fedora repositories are just a handful, most
>>>> of
>>>> which are setup out of the box. It's a big time saver, one of it's best
>>>> features. I would use / evaluate much less software if I had to read
>>>> instructions and download each package manually.
>>>
>>> I don't see how this relates to code libraries. Distribution
>>> repositories
>>> simply repackage and distribute software others have written. Having
>>> something like that for D is unrealistic.
>>
>> Why? It works quite well for Ruby as well as other languages.
> 
> Um? Maybe I don't know enough about RubyGems (I don't use Ruby but used it
> once or twice for a Ruby app) but AFAIK it isn't maintained by a group of
> people who select and package libraries from authors' web pages, but it is
> the authors who publish their libraries directly on RubyGems.
> 

Aha, I've been misunderstanding you all this time, thinking you were arguing 
against the very idea of standard repository and package *format*. Then I 
agree, I also prefer something more decentralized.