On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Barry Fishman <barry_fish...@acm.org> wrote: > > On 2013-06-06 09:01:48 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Nobody is judging the usefulness of a language, I have plenty of >> arguments for that, but this is about popularity. > > I used "usefulness" in its general vague sense. It is useful to be popular, > I don't make choices solely on that or I would be writing everything in > Java. Straw man. >>> Personally I would like the Git client to be packaged with as few >>> dependencies as possible. Right now that seems to require Shell, Sed, >>> Awk and Perl. The documentation has other requirements, but a prebuild >>> tar file is available. >> >> I would be perfectly fine with replacing shell, sed, awk and perl with >> ruby. But that's not what you are arguing, is it? I don't know what you are saying, but it clearly has nothing to do with the point. Perl is declining, and it would be wise to use another language instead of it. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
