From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 04:50:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA07243 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:50:55 -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 EAA07238 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:50:49 -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 EAA22797; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:51:58 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:51:56 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Niall Smart cc: Amancio Hasty , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-Reply-To: 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, Niall Smart wrote: > > > 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) > > I disagree, C++ may be faster than Java, but that difference is not > significant when doing GUI-type system administration. On the client side -- maybe, but when I am remotely changing something on a system that already is in some kind of trouble (and possibly has a lot of resources used up), I will rather depend on something small, fast, and preferrably kept running, and sleeping most of time. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message