[Python-Dev] And the winner is... (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 00:03:05 CEST 2009

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Nick Coghlan writes:

> Every single git command line example I have seen gives me exactly the > same gut reaction I get whenever I have to read Perl code. Every single one? Sounds to me like the cause is probably something you ate, not anything you read. In the examples in the PEP, about 80% of the commands were syntactically identical across VCSes.

What, hyperbole on the internets? ;)

The non-trivial examples are the ones I was talking about - as you say, for trivial tasks, the only difference is typically going to be in the exact name of the command.

I hope nobody is put off either git or bzr by the result of this PEP. If there's anything striking about the PEP's examples, it's how similar the usage of the VCSes would be in the context of Python's workflow. There are important differences, and I agree with Guido's choice, for Python, on March 30, 2009. But all three are capable VCSes, with advantages and disadvantages, and were this PEP started next June rather than last December, the result could have been very different.

Indeed! (although I doubt git's CLI will ever evolve into anything I could claim to love)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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