Re: Does debian have an official "standard" scripting language ?

[olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie)]

*-"Geoffrey L. Brimhall" <brimhall@pobox.com>
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| Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an
| official scripting language ? 
| 
| If so, is it perl, python, etc ?
| 
| The reason I'm asking is largely questions of disk space - ie minimizing the
| number of scripting languages installed on a system by writing a package which
| depends on that scripting language.

This has been discussed, but not settled. Some love perl, some love
pyhton, some love both and some love none. I don't think there will
ever be a "standard" scripting language, but I guess perl is closest
at the moment, with perl-base being in the base system and all.

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