Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 09:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708270959290.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070827014034.GD18160@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 04. Which programming languages are you proficient with?
> > 
> > It losk like there is only 3/4 people proficient in Perl as compared to 
> > Python; it looks like Python is more popular. C is most popular, with 
> > only a few (if everything is all right with the results page) people 
> > proficient in Tcl/Tk. I'm sorry, git-gui and gitk guys; it looks like
> > not many developers...
> 
> Rather sad given their user base.

Not only their user base, but also their portability. Tcl/Tk compile _out of the box_ on MinGW, for example. That is much more than can be said about GTK, Python amongst others.

But then, Tcl is not _that_ difficult, and we're doing pretty fine, methinks.

Ciao, Dscho