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| author | rillig <rillig> | 2006-02-28 23:32:47 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig> | 2006-02-28 23:32:47 +0000 |
| commit | eb0634f396f4ebb40e3096ac47551774bf65951c (patch) | |
| tree | c2e82407c5a27f3ca44e88788484e065d52cd9fa /pkgtools | |
| parent | fc3226a647285b916488031806850a721ed0b448 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-eb0634f396f4ebb40e3096ac47551774bf65951c.tar.gz | |
The rant on Perl has moved to the pkglint book.
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| -rw-r--r-- | pkgtools/pkglint/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/pkgtools/pkglint/README b/pkgtools/pkglint/README index 654863e3ab4..f6d94fa4fef 100644 --- a/pkgtools/pkglint/README +++ b/pkgtools/pkglint/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2006/02/28 15:21:09 rillig Exp $ +$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2006/02/28 23:32:47 rillig Exp $ == Current problems == @@ -20,14 +20,4 @@ because most of pkgsrc is heavily based on preprocessors: All this makes enhancing pkglint non-trivial. If you know of any academic papers that might be of help in this case, please tell me. -Additionally, the Perl programming language is not well suited to this -kind of tool. It does not provide: - -- Sufficient static checking (especially for names of methods) -- A type system (you can apply almost any operator to any kind of data) -- Object orientation (needed for the future advanced parsers) -- Narrow scope for constants (it's just ugly) -- Enumeration data types -- Structured data types - The pkglint source code is much too big for a single file. |