From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:01:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0M5tsN+zYoa_HC+8SLqyvDUBi_wuiOGyQWo0XWbWXC-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d2rz5svw.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org>
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org> wrote:
>
> On 2013-06-06 03:46:59 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:26 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good thing you are being objective and leaving out the Python 3.0
>>> mess, the long legacy of backwards compatibility in the Perl
>>> community, the active community behind it, its extensive portability
>>> support, and fail to mention the lack of an equivalent to CPAN. We
>>> wouldn't want facts to get in the way of a personal bias would we?
>>
>> None of that has anything to do with Perl's popularity.
>>
>>> Just thought I'd push back on the FUD. People have been saying Perl is
>>> going away for decades...
>>
>> Perl has been going away for the last decade [1], and will continue to
>> go away. Perl is going away, and that an undeniable fact, and if you
>> are not interested in discussing on the basis of reality, I'm not
>> interested in discussing with you.
>>
>> [1] http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/images/tpci_trends.png
>
> I don't think the usefulness of a language should be judged by hits on a
> web site.
Nobody is judging the usefulness of a language, I have plenty of
arguments for that, but this is about popularity.
> 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?
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-04 23:45 What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2013, #02; Tue, 4) Junio C Hamano
2013-06-05 0:04 ` [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Junio C Hamano
2013-06-05 3:02 ` David Lang
2013-06-05 14:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-05 4:13 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-06-05 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 12:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-07 16:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 19:48 ` Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
2013-06-05 14:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 7:26 ` demerphq
2013-06-06 7:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 12:24 ` Barry Fishman
2013-06-06 13:01 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-06-06 13:46 ` Barry Fishman
2013-06-06 14:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 14:41 ` Barry Fishman
2013-06-06 15:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 20:41 ` Charles McGarvey
2013-06-06 14:54 ` Greg Troxel
2013-06-06 15:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 16:09 ` David Lang
2013-06-06 18:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 20:29 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-06 20:19 ` David Lang
2013-06-07 14:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 15:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07 15:28 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 19:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 19:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 19:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 2:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2013-06-09 9:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 23:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 4:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07 20:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 2:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 10:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 11:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 12:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 19:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 17:16 ` Greg Troxel
2013-06-06 18:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 21:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-06 21:31 ` Dependencies and packaging (Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/) Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-07 19:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 16:22 ` [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Johannes Schindelin
2013-06-06 20:40 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 3:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2013-06-07 15:20 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 17:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-07 18:14 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 18:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 18:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-07 18:48 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-07 19:00 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-07 19:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 18:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-07 18:45 ` Matthew Ruffalo
2013-06-07 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07 19:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 19:41 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 2:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2013-06-08 2:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 10:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 11:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 11:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 12:07 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 13:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 17:15 ` Jeff King
2013-06-08 17:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 0:10 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 1:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 2:23 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 2:41 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 3:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2013-06-05 6:59 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2013, #02; Tue, 4) Johannes Sixt
2013-06-05 7:12 ` Jeff King
2013-06-06 6:34 ` [PATCH] t0005: skip signal death exit code test on Windows Johannes Sixt
2013-06-06 6:37 ` Jeff King
2013-06-06 6:41 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 6:44 ` Jeff King
2013-06-06 6:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-06 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 17:40 ` Jeff King
2013-06-07 6:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 10:12 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-07 10:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 12:00 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-07 12:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 12:46 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-07 13:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 14:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-10 5:48 ` [PATCH] mingw: make mingw_signal return the correct handler Johannes Sixt
2013-06-10 11:37 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-10 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 0:18 ` [PATCH] t0005: skip signal death exit code test on Windows Jeff King
2013-06-09 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 5:30 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-10 11:38 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-06 18:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 10:01 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-07 10:03 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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