David Lang wrote: > Well, Felipe is saying that Perl is dieing and we should re-write everything > that exists in Perl to Ruby. I don't agree with that opinion. More generally, I think the entire discussion on what _should_ or _should not_ be done is rubbish. What _will_ and _will not_ happen depends on the patches contributors send. If a contributor sends a patch rewriting git-svn in ruby, then we have a discussion: is anyone bored enough to pick up the task in the first place? > TIOBE index graph is "press coverage" as far as I'm concerned. Well, that's your definition of "press coverage" then. TIOBE index is generated from scraping the web to figure out which languages are "living", based on discussions between programmers (and yes, "press" articles). I do not have conclusive or "undeniable" proof that perl is dying, but the trends are indicative of a decline. I think Felipe is using the argument that perl is declining to answer the question "why didn't you write git-related in perl instead?"; that's it. -- 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