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Posted by Jonathan Allen on Feb 23, 2007 03:19 PM
Why on earth its not on c#, Visual Basic or Delphi at least? Why take exotic language for public library? How one would add changes to library implementation without knowing something extraudinary like chinese. Do you know that english and c# are standard in communication- one in speech and another in programming in dotnet?
I think that open libraries must be on common and standard language. For DOTNET is C#. Other language is exotic way to make troubles for programmers. We did openId server implementation ourselves on C#, its difficult and errorprone. Industry needs library on standard languages!
While C# may be the most common language in .NET, the entire point and spirit of .NET is that you can write in any language and your program/library interops with anything else. If this author provides a useful library to you that happens to be written in Boo, thank him for the library and use it as a compiled library if you don't want to work in Boo. Ungrateful people. grumble grumble
I was of course, like anyreligious zealotC# programmer, shocked and offended and looked on with disbelief that anyone would use any language that wasn't the One True Way® to produce perfectly viable and runnable IL. Microsoft's whole multi-language, single-runtime was just to prove a point to the Java guys right? I looked at the code with disdainNo curly braces? Duck typing? Is this how these people live and code? Freaks. Toy Languages, man, toy languages.
Wait a second. I've already got a library that works. It's got unit tests. It depends on a tested and released Mono library and a 3 year old non-mainstream language, but it works. It's been used and implemented live before and someone has already wrapped it into an even better and more useful abstraction. Maybe it'll work after all.
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Of course not. Why should it? If it is well written (and documented), comes with unit tests, then it is for the "market" to decide whether it is a viable option or not. Maybe those C#-only people should heed the advice of The Pragmatic Programmers (www.pragmaticprogrammer.com) and learn one new language every year, just to stay on top of things.
Eirik M
Hi, I think it's difficult question -
If the library is open-source and you may need to modify than exotic language can be problematic for two reasons. First problem is that it will be difficult to find a developer who can do this and second problem is that compliler may be no longer supported (which will make it impossible to modify library). If you know that you won't need to modify it and it is well tested than I don't see any reasons for not using it. And finally, if the library is commercially supported than the use of exotic language is not a problem at all.
One additional reason for not using library like this is that exotic languages may create classes with "strange" interface, but I think that Boo is allright from this point of view.
Tomas
Isn't the whole value proposition of the .NET framework the fact that you can consume libraries written in other .NET languages? Talk about missing the big picture. And if Boo is too difficult for someone to learn, they have no business trying to patch open source software. I guess when all you have is a hammer....
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