From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 04:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04107 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04100 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA29946; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:25:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199803021225.HAA29946@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Amancio Hasty cc: Alex Belits , Eivind Eklund , khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 03:35:59 PST." <199803021135.DAA10153@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 07:25:04 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hasty@rah.star-gate.com said: :- 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 . But old isn't necessarily bad, and Java isn't a scripting language. And scripting launguages have a very valuable role in this problem domain. Also, for a view of where scrpting languages live in modern design methodologies, see http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/patterns/scripting/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message