From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:10:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_g2jpa+VqnuzhNaBNkC5bJHwbEy1iP-=sG29FFKmjTjpw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121125224728.GD6937@thyrsus.com>

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>:
>> What about embedded systems? git is also useful there. C and shell is
>> everywhere, python is not.
>
> Supposing this is true (and I question it with regard to shell) if you
> tell me how you live without gitk and the Perl pieces I'll play that
> right back at you as your answer.

gitk is unlikely to be used on an embedded system, the perl pieces more so.

I have never understood why people complain about readability in perl.
 Just because it uses the ascii charset a bit more?  You expect a
mathematician or indeed any scientist to use special symbols to mean
special things, why not programmers?

Perhaps people should be forced to use COBOL for a few years (like I
did, a long while ago) to appreciate brevity.