Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:31:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960524142734.25292B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> In-Reply-To: <199605241956.VAA23547@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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I would be doing it for the sole purpose of adding a lot of site specific things as I did under Linux (finally digged up a skeleton to the adduser program and modifying it). I asked about it being in C because I know C and not Perl. :(. I would rather just add my things to the current adduser program. On Fri, 24 May 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. > - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access
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