From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:01:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Barry Fishman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 06 15:01:55 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZpD-0002ka-3f for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:01:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933053Ab3FFNBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:01:51 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f172.google.com ([209.85.217.172]:58571 "EHLO mail-lb0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932940Ab3FFNBu (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:01:50 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f172.google.com with SMTP id p10so3050195lbi.17 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:01:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=EZb/aNYsqFtFz7WMx1lROftTwyxjtfoE8eOH+DztukQ=; b=UVqGXyoOJs5y7wXFeaY3HyvaovLYMo5UdO8W6BrI7YSdddrYih48xqF2UbBxs9/wl5 bT/MJy+kVPoqPEj1f2AKfaNknSvJl+G7puNijdbBrUd90B0v0nApUbQcp+WK2JpSAXTG k9nwRtZLoiycSMuHL8iNqDGDdw/5wv/JodfckscTP+apCHp5+dU6WaWrDcOMejU+xf2A 4e1fVmF5655YsKmQo/kqKhLFyIS3IEB6URk0MCNF/Jo1u/gDMzz1w1gZSn8qTAT4fRpc iAXJ4/AqYZQvp7b4jWoRnFsKt1CuwLbDWqZ9fXiRnFwcO35EABmHK8hCDNaOql/o5o6b +qdg== X-Received: by 10.152.26.225 with SMTP id o1mr17804212lag.43.1370523708796; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.202 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 06:01:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Barry Fishman wrote: > > On 2013-06-06 03:46:59 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:26 AM, demerphq 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