Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Before anybody mentions tcl ;-).

Darn, I had my suggestion sent out: Java ;-)

I do see the smileys, but the fact is, "perl" is a hell of a lot more 
portable than either, if we want to talk executing processes and pipelines 
etc. But even perl is clearly not portable enough, and has tons of version 
skew.

Java, afaik, has absolutely _zero_ support for creating a new process and 
piping its output to another one and doing things like safe argument 
expansion. Which is what almost all of the git scripts are all about.

		Linus