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From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
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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.
> 


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