Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

> This is precisely information that is not documented at the moment,
> and - indeed - some aspects are still probably in evolution. Only the
> project's leading devs could really give you a satisfactory answer.
>
> But, certainly, the lack of developer documentation is something that
> is a real brake to people wanting to ease themselves into a position
> of being able to hack code for the project. AFAIK, a lot of the Java
> is being replaced with Perl.

This is a very disappointing development.

Perl is going to be MUCH harder to maintain than java.  I recall the
joke "A programmer had a problem.  He decided to use perl.  The
programmer then had two problems."

I don't want to get too involved in the technical details here.  But
perhaps you could tell me how solid this decision is, and who to
discuss some of these issues with?

Thanks.

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