[TUHS] [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon May 13 06:43:35 AEST 2024


On Sun, 12 May 2024, Adam Thornton wrote:

> I'm afraid only old farts write anything in Perl anymore.  The kids just
> mutter "OK, Boomer" when you try to tell them how much better CPAN was than
> PyPi.  And it sure feels like all the cool kids have abandoned Go for Rust,
> although Go would be a perfectly reasonable choice for this task as well
> (and would look a lot like Python: get an object back, pick off the useful
> fields).

I must be an old fart then; the last language I used where white space was 
part of the syntax was FORTRAN...

-- Dave


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