From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 04:00:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28764 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:00:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA28758 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA22514; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:01:42 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:01:41 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Amancio Hasty cc: Eivind Eklund , khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-Reply-To: <199803021135.DAA10153@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > I don't have many comments --- well okay at work we got a 20000 line > system install thingy all written in shell try debugging that 8) > > > Traditional scripting languages for unix, sh, csh , tcsh are > a bit antiquated and downright awkward to work with. > > Java is extensible and its supporting structure is intensively being > worked on . I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is still more flexible and efficient than java. [long-winged explanation about incompleteness and impurity of OOP in C++ and reasons for accepting it as tradeof for efficiency, better interface with OS and portability is omitted here] -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message