[Mageia-discuss] Think about bugzilla monitoring?

Sat Sep 25 18:31:56 CEST 2010

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+Le 25/09/2010 16:54, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
+> On Saturday 25 September 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive
+>   from Farfouille<farfouille64 at free.fr>  who wrote:
+>
+>> If one compare a C/Gobject program with its equivalent in Vala, it is
+>> obvious that it will have fewer bugs in Vala version, just because there
+>> less lines of code hence less places where bugs can hide.
+>
+> This argument does not hold water. I used to program in APL, progs were
+> usually very short (a complex prog had less than a few dozen lines), and could
+> be full of bugs.
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Ron.
+Please don't compare APL with the languages aforementioned.
+Quote from Wikipedia about APL :
+"Because of its condensed nature and non-standard characters, APL has 
+sometimes been termed a "write-only language 
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language>", and reading an APL 
+program can at first feel like decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics 
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphics>. Because of the 
+unusual character set <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_set>, many 
+programmers use special keyboards 
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard> with APL keytops for 
+authoring APL code."
+
+My argument is about C/Gobject and Vala not about any languages. Vala 
+has been developed with the goal of easing Glib programming. That's why 
+the comparison of program length makes sense.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Farfouille.
+
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