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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by ryao on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:32AM (#11675621)
> there really wasn't much else out there in the field.

What about shell scripts?

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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:42PM (#11676871)
Shell scripts are even more miserable to write than perl, and are missing a lot of features you want for most applications
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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by jschwartzi on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:16AM (#11676071)
Or LISP.
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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:44PM (#11676884)
Firstly, the mention of LISP would have probably sent most of Sun screaming and running for the hills at the time. Secondly, LISP has never been very good at OS integration, one of the most important things for many software projects.
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