On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> 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. >> >> Top three according to whom? > > According to the LOC counts in git's codebase. Not according to ohloh: 1) shell 33% 2) tcl 9% 3) perl 9.7% 4) python 1.8% And this is a non-sequitur; you are proposing to change git policies based on numbers that are a direct result of git's policies? https://www.ohloh.net/p/git/analyses/latest/languages_summary -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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