Re: choice of implementation language

[Paolo Bonzini]

> So I conclude that the choices are
> 
>   Perl
>   Python
>   Ruby
> 
> If using Perl, we could easily restrict ourselves to
> features of 5.8 or even older.  With Python and especially Ruby,
> I'd advocate requiring much more recent versions, due to their relative
> immaturity.

Agreed.

Consider that we do not have to use all the fancy unreadable stuff of
Perl (e.g. lists of lists, which I never bothered learning...).  We can
start with a more-or-less direct translation of the shell script,
without all the speed penalties of forking and with the more powerful
Perl regexps.

Paolo