Re: [KBUILD] Re: Announcing CML2, a replacement for the kbuild system

From: Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 22:34:53 EST


John Cavan <john.cavan@sympatico.ca>:
> But I have to ask, what's wrong with Perl for this? It's a well known,
> fast, and flexible tool that allows rapid development and change. Seems
> quite appropriate for this sort of effort.

Start with the absence of object serialization in Perl. Python's
pickle/unpickle was critical to the design.

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