Posted by mbstevens on 10/15/06 13:33

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> mbstevens wrote:
>
>> mbstevens wrote:
>>> Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>>>> Jeffrey wrote:
>>>> HTML Tidy <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/> (better known as a stand-alone
>>>> program which reads 'tag-soup' and outputs a cleaned up version) seems
>>>> to be written in C
>>> It is in Perl.
>> ...I just checked myslef. I remembered
>> (hopefully correctly) it used to be in Perl,
>> but it appears to now be ported into C.
>
> I also thought it was perl. But a on quick glance at the CVS repository I
> only found a bunch of .c files.

I may have had it confused with the w3c
validator, which is in Perl.

> If porting some software from X to C is a
> wise decision nowadays, is rather questionable though... We're not talking
> about real-time raytracing here...


The mind boggles at the extra effort it must
have taken to do it in C instead of using
Perl, Python, or Ruby. Still, C made my
living for many years before those were
around, and all three were written in it.

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