Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:01:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010712220101.A23312@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010712180607.C93119@jake.akitanet.co.uk>; from paul@akita.co.uk on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:06:07PM %2B0100 References: <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <20010711190247.D52923@mail.webmonster.de> <20010712154432.N53408@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20010712180421.F91396@mail.webmonster.de> <20010712180607.C93119@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Jul 12, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> wrote: > > perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has > > serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it > > not simply enables programmers to do bad things[tm] but almost enforces > > them to do so. ..snip.. > A sloppy programmer in one language is a sloppy programmer in all > languages. Just because the language looks neater and more formal, doesn't ..snip.. > The advantage to Perl, if done properly, is that it allows more people who Uh.. the usual FreeBSD rule applies here (which you guys seem to be forgetting)... he who does the work gets to make the choice. In this case someone has already started a new installer framework and they chose TCL. What? You don't like TCL? Well then, be finished with your effort before the libh guys do. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) P.S. ENOUGH WITH THE USELESS LANGUAGE BICKERING! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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