From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 05:08:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10480 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10458 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10631; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199803021307.FAA10631@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alex Belits cc: Niall Smart , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:51:56 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:07:31 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, all this is academic for "we ain't got no" application developers in this group . Cheers, Amancio > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message