What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-18 17:29, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/18/11 6:36 AM, Lutger Blijdestijn 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.
>
> Package management something we really need to figure out for D.
> Question is, do we have an expert on board (apt-get architecture, cpan,
> rubygems...)?
>
> Andrei

I'm not an expert but I've been thinking for a while about doing a 
package system for D, basically RubyGems but for D. But I first want to 
finish (finish as in somewhat usable and release it) another project I'm 
working on.

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/Jacob Carlborg