Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>
Date: Jun 6, 2013, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <m3txlbe1ym.fsf@barry_fishman.acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0baW0muNzZb1yjDXiS=y3_R5LhzWcqEsPzNZizETwACQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013-06-06 10:09:21 EDT, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> 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.

If you have a better solution, then write all the code to replace it, and demonstrate with a significant number of active users that your solution works out better in practice.

Wasn't that how Git started?

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Barry Fishman

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