From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Barry Fishman Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:41:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 06 16:41:40 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 1UkbNh-0006zD-JR for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:41:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752486Ab3FFOld (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:41:33 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52098 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752141Ab3FFOlc (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:41:32 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkbNa-0006ta-RH for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:41:30 +0200 Received: from fl-71-52-212-116.dhcp.embarqhsd.net ([71.52.212.116]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:41:30 +0200 Received: from barry_fishman by fl-71-52-212-116.dhcp.embarqhsd.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:41:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fl-71-52-212-116.dhcp.embarqhsd.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAALVBMVEXG87t8xXThBQWq85q9 87AvUC6PUVH/BgamyajC87a/87P////r6+ud7oq49KsBy7dJAAACKUlEQVQ4jc3Sv2vbQBQH 8CulwcEdeoOKwM1QD/bSzVktKDEdMpRqeMKQFNqAhEGbh3aVB5sDafAYL106xZMzuAiehnqI EciLMR2viz0Vor+hdydZMa6z97sI9NH7cYdI9ZGQr4/kP4Fu1akehFqHDaoHoOviPLD3oVtz 7PIErFCeeRdqOuvptwDMYSyfpKB7iYh3DOCTeOKzegGvk8hD1O22eD2B9tUWum9wbpXYy6NA wAzMeQFu1AeT2VAW0Af4sYUvfmRbCWLciXq0B2ZYf4C+GL/AGBIcOP4O4MzFKbiTAGOPYg7V mu1j5OIdfIgT7FtHGKoZIHKB6IuK9kDODpNsK0pPVnqCFbyFSyYWMMPnIA9CVsbm5l2HuRjZ FVERBXFPs8QQMhIZvqUX8jJmiTzIRy5FwWhEdAmR4y1KnQbn1KrnMOrLj6PPDnW8bw2+1K7I OINrecF9jwyJyBlfAvkzvlEy6DBHJ3m+8yU5HY9V0TWl+nALx+slMQTkRWKHQprEOJeST3qg p8RoHZRjsmm1ctrrJ0HkX0mFvG+uTnf7qe3SNG2dcc4bm70iAemaHxAJ91zF2G2noMl/UVVk bAoihgINlKwa6XkuhBsKGJgnPBuVEeG/5Wzqz3tZ0bYh4SsBS+qXZtTMRTWUcC/Bnybi7+R5 VoaAdZNz7ZU/RT8u2nEuQTw0VpmjH/7UChHQlFAGT1Rg8GS7Hcm+0F4EDgvYIohLAFS++wvs R0Pau3fdJgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rq9Klu7Jxk60+bE9jhE9YbKcxg0= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2013-06-06 10:09:21 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote: > I don't know what you are saying, but it clearly has nothing to do > with the point. > > Perl is declining, and it would be wise to use another language > instead of it. You want a simple statement. I don't particulary like Perl, but it has worked well for the project. If you have a better solution, then write all the code to replace it, and demonstrate with a significant number of active users that your solution works out better in practice. Wasn't that how Git started? -- Barry Fishman