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 02:46:59 -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: Junio C Hamano , Git , Jeff King , Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Scharfe?= , Michael Haggerty , Matthieu Moy , =?UTF-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= , Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Johannes Sixt , Johannes Schindelin To: demerphq X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 06 09:47:07 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 1UkUuZ-0007HD-6M for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:47:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757889Ab3FFHrD (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 03:47:03 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]:51103 "EHLO mail-lb0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755499Ab3FFHrB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 03:47:01 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id r11so1712079lbv.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:46:59 -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=UE56fZ0KN/sAbkplnY8+/msTUil9vLIi5y3TeEk3bCA=; b=wNTpv+74426wZrMcGnaC+0gJiChqm9bpz11grK6e62TnoMTXjrYv94Z8NlVg5FRVA+ 3k2aCNBASiW12DOwHoBINVGumo2Ka+OaDUiOm+K7uvod3BbB5oMKCTfJSIOtNRfAIgs1 YGlXTGvFYMuTVcgi37MlHX7UayMMup3efZo/KRcyjPKR8ZN4tlxnWil1/j6/dgDyN6Mm xstosGRJfGVcFehKrQotaa/h5z4yzJ6DG4zV9nTFBG5CMMD5dyfgSzW/dPyn3RMiWt+6 C7ElPp8bEDBteSJq9NJItbLHvoW3++FYCVq9YC1URXgESF+ray9kpBPk+zw+I5Jphfrt 70Uw== X-Received: by 10.112.132.66 with SMTP id os2mr10745177lbb.118.1370504819824; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.202 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 00:46:59 -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 2:26 AM, demerphq wrote: > On 5 June 2013 16:45, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> That might make sense for the shorter term, but in longer term I see >> Perl as declining in favor of other languages. It's only a matter of >> time before Ruby surpasses Perl in popularity, and soon enough new >> contributors to the Git project will have problems trying to improve >> Git because parts of it are written in a language they are not >> familiar with, and have trouble learning (isn't that already >> happening?). >> >> The Ruby vs. Python is another question altogether, I could go into >> detail about why I think Ruby is a better choice, but my point right >> now is that Perl is not a good choice for the future. > > 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 -- Felipe Contreras