Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Saturday 19 February 2005 00:35, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday 18 February 2005 18:32, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> >
> > Such doom-oriented prophecies always prove false. The same were said
> > about KDE and C++ when it started. "C++ is too complex, booo, they'll
> > have unmaintanable code booooo".
>
>   Funny, I thought the exact opposite back then.

So did I :-). Now if scons was written in something like Perl, I wouldn't even 
consider it. But as far as scripting languages go, Python, with its 
space-indented no-fun one-way-to-do-it syntax is the most likely to remain 
easily maintainable.

-- 
      Guillaume.
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