Time for a little Object-Oriented refactoring? [was Re: Automatic homepage for sourceforge, googlecode, etc.]

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 16:01, Blair Zajac wrote:

> If I had to guess there's more Python programmers than Tcl  
> programmers so MacPorts could benefit from using a language that  
> allow more developers to contribute.  Using Tcl is a barrier that  
> even I haven't taken on to see how to fix or improve things in  
> MacPorts.

And there are also people who know existing MacPorts syntax well, and  
do not know Python.


I understand Tcl was chosen for a reason, one of them being that it  
has a nice syntax that doesn't burden you with a lot of quoting and  
escaping when that isn't necessary in most cases. Having to write

	name = "foo";

instead of

	name foo

may not look like a lot of extra characters but it would certainly  
add up.


We have thousands of ports already. It's a little late to change the  
language now, I think.