On 2011-02-06, at 04:57, Nicholas Clark wrote:
It's somewhat like Perl, in that "there's more than one way to do it" and "make hard things possible". Unfortunately it missed the "make easy things easy".
Perl confuses "there is more than one way to do it" with "let's come up with half a dozen different syntaxes for exactly the same thing". The former is useful. The latter is daft. Git, so far as I can see, has avoided this anti-pattern. I think a better comparison would perhaps be Lisp.
