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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
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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.