On 12 October 2012 23:42, Jos Backus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Steve Loughran <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > prefer python as its more common on systems by default, works on windows > > > > > Python is more common on systems because RedHat has embraced it for many of > its tools. > But Ruby works on Windows, too; see http://rubyinstaller.org/ > > But my main point is that shells don't represent more complex > datastructures well, nor are they good at operating on them. E.g. compared > to Ruby/Python/Perl, bash has poor and clunky string and array > manipulation, and virtually no support for associative arrays (hashes). >
yes, we seem to agree on that http://steveloughran.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/pythonium-or-why-is-there-no-javash.html I'd be tempted to go upstream and do it in -core. FWIW my first ever contrib to the ASF was a perl script to start Ant
