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[tools-yak@collab] Re: Perl/Python position for Identity Commons

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From: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:44:12 +0100
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Cool.    (01)

Fluency?
I guess I've always tacitly taken it as being much the same as 
fluency in a natural language. If I want to say something, I would 
just be able to say it, and I wouldn't have to spend a couple of 
hours digging over docs to remember niggles of syntax and without 
having to speak slowly. But then maybe I'm not as rusty as I always 
think I am when I haven't used a language for a bit.    (02)

So my definition of fluency is sort of in comparison with that level 
where I could hack anything together if so desired - fluency implies 
absence of struggle. ;)    (03)

-- 
Peter    (04)

On 5 Aug 2004 at 14:39, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:    (05)

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Peter P. Jones wrote:
> 
> > I'm not *fluent* in the right things, but I have to ask (without
> > wishing to start a flame war): Why not PHP 5 all the way? What extra
> > do Perl/Python buy?
> 
> The technology itself is language agnostic.  Identity Commons wants to
> have implementations in as many languages as possible.  It just so
> happens that they already have people in-house doing PHP stuff, and
> that they have immediate needs for Perl and Python stuff.  (The XRI
> resolver is written in Perl, and they'd like to i-name-enable
> MoinMoin, which is Python.)
> 
> I'm curious: I know you've written stuff in Perl before.  How do you
> define "fluency"?
> 
> -Eugene
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