What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Vladimir Panteleev]

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.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net