Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

On 5 June 2013 16:45, Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
That might make sense for the shorter term, but in longer term I see
Perl as declining in favor of other languages. It's only a matter of
time before Ruby surpasses Perl in popularity, and soon enough new
contributors to the Git project will have problems trying to improve
Git because parts of it are written in a language they are not
familiar with, and have trouble learning (isn't that already
happening?).

The Ruby vs. Python is another question altogether, I could go into
detail about why I think Ruby is a better choice, but my point right
now is that Perl is not a good choice for the future.

Good thing you are being objective and leaving out the Python 3.0
mess, the long legacy of backwards compatibility in the Perl
community, the active community behind it, its extensive portability
support, and fail to mention the lack of an equivalent to CPAN. We
wouldn't want facts to get in the way of a personal bias would we?

Just thought I'd push back on the FUD. People have been saying Perl is
going away for decades...

Yves