[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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