Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:32:16 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <200407080832.16508.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20040708123823.01F534AC29@fw.farid-hajji.net> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <87eknn9yoi.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <20040708123823.01F534AC29@fw.farid-hajji.net>
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--Boundary-02=_gzU7AKjC+GSamNQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 2004-07-08 07:38 am, cpghost wrote: > Actually, there are some network daemons written in Perl, Python, Java, > ... probably also in Ada or Modula-3. They are great for their intended > use, but they are generally not used in production environments with high > requirements. I used Python to write a bridge adapter between my company's Unix servers=20 and Windows databases and it's been running uninterrupted for several=20 months in a rather demanding environment. Of course, the plural of=20 "anecdote" isn't "data", so take that with a grain of salt. I do almost all new development in Python. Frankly, I don't trust my own=20 abilities to catch every single stupid error that I'm likely to make when=20 writing in C, and my personal throughput is much higher in Python than C. = =20 Having said that, one of the things that attracted me to Python is that=20 it's trivially easy to write specific functions in other languages=20 (including C) where appropriate, so you can use a nice, high-level language= =20 for the parts where performance isn't critical, but some tightly optimized= =20 C for the essential components. =46reenet is written in Java, although that's not a shining example of a sl= eek=20 application. The BitTorrent tracker and most common client apps are=20 written in Python. The maintainer of Leafnode has discussed writing the=20 new version in Python. There's not a huge groundswell yet, but servers in= =20 high-level languages are starting to trickle in. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --Boundary-02=_gzU7AKjC+GSamNQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBA7Uzg5sRg+Y0CpvERArzKAJ9Zm6smRZrtKcinJ/cWGOae/ZmdIACaAkjQ sq3cl5efkfqcVxUCZmu2wyc= =0tGS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_gzU7AKjC+GSamNQ--
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