Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

onsdagen den 23 juli 2008 15.18.40 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > > 
> > > Some people prefer to stay anonymous, so I think email is out.
> > > 
> > > >    04. Which programming languages you are proficient with?
> > > >        (The choices include programming languages used by git)
> > > >        (zero or more: multiple choice)
> > > >      - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk
> > > >      + (should we include other languages, like C++, Java, PHP,
> > > >         Ruby,...?)
> > > 
> > > Yes, I think this should be a long list.
> > 
> > I'd rather not have a "laundry list" of languages.  I have put C++
> > because QGit uses it, Java because of egit/jgit, PHP for web
> > interfaces, Ruby because of GitHub and because of Ruby comminity
> > choosing Git.  I should perhaps add Emacs Lisp, HTML+CSS and
> > JavaScript here.  What other languages should be considered?
> 
> C# at least, since we had one (pretty unsuccessful) attempt at 
> reimplementing Git in it.

What is the reason for the question? Do we want to know what languages
people would like to contribute to Git in or do we want to know what "kind"
of programmers are attracted by Git?  Making it a long list should make
it easier to tabulate the responses.

-- robin