On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <[email protected]> wrote:

On May 19, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Jeff Hammond <[email protected]> wrote:

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As I do not know Perl, I don't think I can contribute patches.

No time like the present to learn (though much of the perl in MPICH is not a paragon of perl best practices).

There are better uses of time than learning Perl :-)

Perl is basically the Fortran 90 of scripting languages. It's very effective for certain tasks, it's widely used & available, it's something of a dying language among younger programmers, and it requires discipline to write a readable program. You already know plenty of Fortran badness, a little Perl won't taint you further.

I resent the insinuation that, because I am a Fortran programmer, I must have no standards regarding programming languages. Fortran is a fantastic DSL for numerical computation, which is all I use it for. It would take me longer to learn Perl and get in a position to modify Bill's Perl than to start from scratch and write my own Fortran binding generator in Python. If I do anything on this front, that will be it. Jeff -- Jeff Hammond [email protected] http://jeffhammond.github.io/