From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 23: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761E637B5B2; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5R66n321294; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:06:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David O'Brien" Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000626230648.J275@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:57:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [000626 21:44] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:37:02PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Except that Perl fullfilled a function not present in the system > > Somebody please remind me again what perl does for us that we could not > have done in sh/awk/sed/tr etc. Had 'use strict' and warnings been mandated for source entering the system ala some sort of perl-style(9) we'd have some pretty easy to parse scripts. However as it stands now... :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message