What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Vladimir Panteleev]

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.

> True, though one of the cool things Gregor did back the days with dsss is
> automagically run unittests for each package in the repository and  
> publish
> the results. It wasn't perfect but gave at least some indication.

I think that idea is taken from CPAN. CPAN refuses to install the package  
if it fails unit tests (unless you force it to).

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net