From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 13:23:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23958 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 13:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23949 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 13:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA22325; Fri, 24 May 1996 22:21:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA24854; Fri, 24 May 1996 22:21:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA23547; Fri, 24 May 1996 21:56:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605241956.VAA23547@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adduser program in C To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 21:56:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: lithium@cia-g.com (Stephen Fisher) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Stephen Fisher at "May 24, 96 01:29:50 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen Fisher wrote: > I would like to heavily modify an adduser program, however the > distribution one in FreeBSD is in Perl. I don't do Perl. I would like > to write one in C but was wondering if anyone has done this before? Rewriting something from scratch for the only reason that _you_ don't know about the programming language it has been written in, i would consider unkind to the original author. (After all, Perl's one of the most used scripting languages of the world, nothing totally unknown.) To get me right: there might be several valid reasons for why you want to rewrite adduser, and even for why you wanna rewrite it in something else than Perl. But these reasons should be discussed before, and the author is also here and listening and available, so he should at least be asked for his opinion as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)