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

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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There are many portable interpreters out there, and I don't mean perl. And 
writing a small "specialized for git" one isn't even that hard. In fact, 
most of the shell (and bash) hackery we do now would be unnecessary if we 
just made a small "git interpreter" that ran "git scripts".

Before anybody mentions tcl ;-).

Well, I was thinking more of the "embeddable" ones - things that are so 
small that they can be compiled with the project. Things like Lua.

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I was really thinking more of a simple shell-like script interpreter. 

I like the term "Domain Specific Language" to refer to this sort of 
thing.  It even hints at using the right kind of tools to achieve it, too :)

Sam.