On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Also, you are ignoring all the advantages that shell has and python does not. > > Out of curiosity, can you list the advantages? From what I gathered: > > - no need to install bash Unless you are in Windows or OS X. OS X has a shell, but not bash. > - git contributors are more used to bash I don't see this as a big advantage. > - there's only one "version" of bash (no real need to handle different > versions compared to py26, py27, etc) This one is. The language doesn't change much from different versions of bash either way. - the language is part of POSIX Which means you don't need bash, you can use dash, or zsh, or many other shells. - the language is simple It's so simple it's used in shells. - no need for extensions All you need is the shell binary, that's it. Cheers. -- 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