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To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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        "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. 
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:08:33 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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> 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)
> > <granted thats one bad extreme>
> > 
> > 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.

Yeap, I have to agree that C++ is significantly faster than Java for system 
configuration 8)

BTW: you forgot who was going to write the nice X stuff for a C++ based program
that is if we are still talking about a GUI tool .

	Cheers,
	Amancio







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