The impact of language choice on github projects

Re:The impact of language choice on github projects by pyre on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:04AM (#3466402)

  > "I've never written any perl" that says it all. Try it,
  > you will understand.

Let's not start a language war here, please.

  > I fail to see how its really any worse than ruby/python.

  > B/w what makes you think ruby/python is worse?

I fail to see where the parent post claimed that ruby/python were worse than Perl.

My interpretation is that the parent poster believes that Perl, Ruby, and Python all suffer from the idea that the larger the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. That complexity then becomes a barrier to entry for contribution to the project.

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Re:The impact of language choice on github projects by szabgab on Sunday January 15, 2012 @04:08AM (#3466760)

... and Java and C and C# and even PHP gets more complex as the code base grows. I am sure you don't pretend that naming one, or 3 does not send the message that that the others are not.

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Re:The impact of language choice on github projects by pyre on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:09PM (#3467582)

I only named those three because they were within the context of the discussion. Nothing more. The idea that complexity increases over time and become a barrier to entry applies to a great many things.

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