From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:31:25 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FE1B9D.10403@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602231143290.3771@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>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.
[...]
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 18:37 Should we support Perl 5.6? Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-20 19:10 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-20 21:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-20 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:05 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] rerere: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] send-email: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] svmimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:19 ` [PATCH] cvsimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-21 17:30 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: " Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 20:36 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-21 21:57 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 22:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-21 22:35 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-02-21 23:00 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 16:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-22 19:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 19:51 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-22 22:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 8:00 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 8:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 9:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:41 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 10:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 13:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 14:07 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 14:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 19:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:31 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2006-02-24 6:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 21:43 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 19:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-26 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 20:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 14:18 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:18 ` Mark Wooding
2006-03-02 16:11 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:20 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 23:17 ` NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 1:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 18:30 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 9:19 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 18:45 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-03-02 13:40 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 17:39 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-02 22:01 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 20:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-24 12:02 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-24 13:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-24 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-21 20:56 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:04 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <1cf1c57a0602211412r1988b14ao435edd29207dc0d0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-02-21 22:13 ` Ron Parker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-02 16:44 Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:55 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-02 22:09 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 1:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 1:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 17:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
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