Re: choice of implementation language

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Karl,

* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:36:53PM CET:
>     given that the autoconf etc. are written in perl
> 
> Just for the record, it's automake that's primarily written in perl.
> autoconf is a shell script (plus m4).

And autoconf uses autom4te under the hood, which is a perl script.
Likewise, some of the other programs of the Autoconf package are
implemented in perl,

But since configure scripts are (primarily) shell, the gnulib-tool
maintainer would most likely need to know about the shell portability
quirks anyway; gnulib-tool in shell doesn't add much more to learn
there.

Cheers,
Ralf