Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2013, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3RPSo5Uw2yLfGPmepbgFePD3bmj6wh7aQDuKdQL-eLuQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3txlbe1ym.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org>

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org> wrote:

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> On 2013-06-06 10:09:21 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> I don't know what you are saying, but it clearly has nothing to do
>> with the point.
>>
>> Perl is declining, and it would be wise to use another language
>> instead of it.
>
> You want a simple statement.  I don't particulary like Perl, but it has
> worked well for the project.

It would serve it less and less as the years go by.

> If you have a better solution, then write all the code to replace it,

False dichotomy fallacy. I don't need to do that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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