Re: Python Was: [Mldonkey-users] getting frustrated

[Martin]

Ken Bradshaw wrote...
> Martin wrote:
> >i think its one of its biggest advantages...look at emule and all the
> >0-upload-mods. just because every script-kiddie can code in c. 
> You are kidding, no?
> You are telling me nobody can see that mldonkey has a "no upload" 
> already built in, with a limit of 300. Changing 300 to 300000 is 
> something any script kiddie can do :-)

i doubt that. ok - its easy but you have to read the code and i know
what i had on my mind as i first saw caml-code....
a better example would be the emule mods that try to steal user
hashes. im with mldonkey (and ocaml) since v1 and i dont know how to
do that....in c this is a 5-minute-task....

> But going further and doing something useful is HARD. So by using ocaml, 
> you discourage the useful coders, not the "script kiddies"

i thing this was not intened by mldonkey (the programmer). and i agree
with you. but its a problem for *both*, the useful coder and the
script-kiddie. so in the end all kiddies leave and try to "hack" emule.
there are so many emule-mods out there...but try to find a
mldonkey-mod or -patch like this....(i just tried and i could not even
find *one*)
 
> >but only a "few good men" are willing to learn a new programming
> >language
> ahem... the whole ML familly (Caml, Ocaml, SML...) have been there
> >for

i know i know....i first heard about ocaml at least 7 jears ago. but
mldonkey is the first caml application i know....
and by *new* i did not mean ocaml as a new but as an additional
language to learn

> compilers... even a Microsoft virtual reality system), and then these 
> projects die... when the Phd student leaves the INRIA project. (mmm... 
> when did mldonkey author left the INRIA project BTW? :-)

well...hes not programming mldonkey for quite some time now but hes still
active in the project. i count on the other programmers like simon...
 
> >i learn about ocaml the more i like it)
> I am sure you can have fun learning latin. I had, at school.

so did i

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