From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 18:42:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA01172 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:42:18 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA01164 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:42:11 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA22114; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:46:14 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508210216.LAA22114@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:46:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508201054.MAA00921@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 20, 95 12:54:26 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1129 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Wolfram Schneider stands accused of saying: > Peter da Silva writes: > >>Why not making a m4 macro package like in sendmail? > > > >Because it's actually easier and more convenient to do it in tcl. This > >sort of custom metalanguage is what tcl is designed for: > > tcl syntax is silly. The manpages are really bad (compared to > perl). tcl is actually a package and not in bindist. Perl, OTOH, is slow and bloated, and its syntax is merely incomprehensible. In all sincerity, perl and tcl are both useful tools. For the nominated task, neither is actually appropriate per se, as the aim is to come up with a _simple_ tool for generating kernel configs, not another processed-textfile mangler with a custom syntax and no precedent. > Wolfram -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[