From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 23:46:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139DA37BE4A; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23435; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:45:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39584E0A.2A4C2CB8@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:47:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien 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. Allow screaming butt-ugly code to creep all over the system? Nah, you *can* do that with sh/awk/sed/tr, too. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message