On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Before anybody mentions tcl ;-). > > Darn, I had my suggestion sent out: Java ;-) I do see the smileys, but the fact is, "perl" is a hell of a lot more portable than either, if we want to talk executing processes and pipelines etc. But even perl is clearly not portable enough, and has tons of version skew. Java, afaik, has absolutely _zero_ support for creating a new process and piping its output to another one and doing things like safe argument expansion. Which is what almost all of the git scripts are all about. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html