On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Paul Wankadia wrote:

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> Wincent Colaiuta <win <at> wincent.com> writes:
> 
> > > I just wanted to get a sense of how many people share this "Git should
> > > be in pure C" doctrine.
> > 
> > Count me as one of them. Git is all about speed, and C is the best  
> > choice for speed, especially in context of Git's workload.
> 
> I concur, but I also feel that D, Clean and OCaml are viable alternatives.

I happen to have zero experience with any of those, so if Git 
development was done with one of them, you'd have to count me out.

C is simply the lingua franca when it comes to programming, and it 
happens to be the fastest amongst portable languages too.


Nicolas
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