Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > Removing perl from base would be very painful. > > I don't fancy rewriting all the perl tools in something else (specifically, > most of the ports and package infrastructure) > > lua would definitely NOT be appropriate for that. The only half valid > candidate would be python. > > Contrary to what some people might think, the tools in question won't be > easier to understand and manage if written in another language. >
Contrary to what you think, the original proposal didn't come out of a process called thinking.
