Some distribution disagreements

Some distribution disagreements

Posted Apr 13, 2006 12:53 UTC (Thu) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890)
In reply to: Some distribution disagreements by jwb
Parent article: Some distribution disagreements

Well, I'm not picky about what language it's in. I've started to come to grips more and more with interpreted languages just because writing testsuites is so much easier.

If I write a testsuite in C, C++, or Java, I have to then compile my code, then compile my testsuite, then run it.

If I write my code and my testsuite in, say, Python (which I'm more familiar with), then my Makefile, distutils or whatever can just start chewing through the testsuites. It's much more likely to encourage me to write them, and so usually wind up with less buggy code in the long run.

I think C# provides this too. So hey, if they write it in C# I'm unlikely to ever hack on it, but maybe they can do test-driven development and shake these bugs out.

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