Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:57:51 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, danfe@regency.nsu.ru (Alexey Dokuchaev), Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Message-ID: <p05111715b9592dbce76a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200207160112.g6G1CIgH020442@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <200207160112.g6G1CIgH020442@dotar.thuvia.org>
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At 2:12 AM +0100 7/16/02, Mark Valentine wrote: > > From: danfe@regency.nsu.ru (Alexey Dokuchaev) > > > Traditionally, UNIX lived for 30+ years without need for a >> monster like Perl or Ruby, in the base, clearly showing us that >> sh/awk/sed is a [very] decent scripting facility. > >Though I did breathe a sigh of relief when shell functions became >common enough to be useful... ;-) > >I've never really wanted for anything since. Except maybe for >make(1) to have a standard conditional syntax. Perhaps that is the problem. Me, I want a good package-system, but all the 30-year sh/sed/awk veterans don't seem to see a need for it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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