Re: choice of implementation language

[Sam Steingold]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> If gnulib-tool was to be rewritten in another programming language than
> shell + sed, what would be the good choices?

a popularity contest is not the way to choose a language.

and why aren't you even considering lisp?
clisp comes with all linux distributions.
every decent CS program provides at least some lisp exposure, so it is not 
completely unfamiliar to most people.
things like perl/python/ruby, defined by their unique implementations, enforce 
the "throwaway code" approach.