Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <[email protected]>:
> These may apply to other languages as well. Where do we draw a line?
I'm in favor of the general policy of avoiding scripting languages
other than the top three most widely deployed. At the moment that
means shell, Python, Perl; on present trends, in a few years Perl
(dropping in popularity) might be passed by Ruby on the way up.
Or, to put it another way, I'm *not* actually arguing that we ought
to encourage extension commands in Guile or Haskell or whatever else
the in-language-of-the-week is. It would be bad for maintainability
to fragment git's codebase that way.
What I'm arguing is that the tradeoffs within the group {C, shell, Perl,
Python} have changed in ways that favor Python as it has become more
stable and widely deployed. So instead of grudgingly allowing a few
Python extensions in through a back door we ought to be encouraging
more use of it.
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