What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 20.01.2011 00:54, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> You can have the author release packaged libraries for developers
>> to use and the author should do this. So this begs the question of
>> what is the repository for?
>
> It's so you have a variety of libraries available at once with
> minimal hassle when you are originally writing something.
>
> I really don't care about those libraries' implementation details.
> I just want it so when I type "import something.lib;" in my
> program it actually works. If something.lib's author wants to
> use other.thing, great, I just don't want to think about it
> anymore than I think about his private classes or functions.
>
>
>> Why is the tool going out to different URLs and downloading files
>> when you are supposed to use the pre-built lib?
>

Pre-built libs aren't all that useful anyway, for several reasons:
1. Templates
2. different operating systems: there would have to be pre-built libs 
for Windows, OSX, Linux and FreeBSD (if not even more)
3. different architectures: there would have to be pre-built libs for 
x86, AMD64 and, thanks to GDC and LDC, for about any platform supported 
by Linux..

Just provide source, so people can build their own libs from it or just 
compile the sources like their own source files. This can still be done 
automagically by the build-tool/package management.

Cheers,
- Daniel