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Subject: Re: Ruby install
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:42:28 +0200
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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> > I am really impressed with GUIX, and I think it is a no-brainer to use
>> > a real functional programming language for this.=20
>
> I was imprecise here. It is my first real foray into LISP. What I
> meant is that it is great to use a real programming language with the
> most important functional characteristics of recursion and anonymous
> functions :)

The key benefit with using a general-purpose programming language is
that you get all the tools (REPL, IDE, debugger, compiler, i18n, etc.),
and it makes the whole thing composable.

Composability means that it=E2=80=99s trivial to implement things like =E2=
=80=98guix
build --with-source=E2=80=99, or Nikita=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98guix prefetch=E2=
=80=99 command, or the
program that builds <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html>,
for example.

Ludo=E2=80=99.