Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:50:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <199606242250.AAA15198@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606240118.UAA08752@compound.Think.COM> from Tony Kimball at "Jun 23, 96 08:18:36 pm"
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As Tony Kimball wrote: > : They are not ``kludges''. The authors of those tools deliberately > : choose Perl for them > > You are absolutely right. I blew it by using the word "kludge". > Sorry. Ok. > This is arguable. Maintainable perl requires substantial skill to > write, and will quickly degrade when touched by less enlightened > hands. Maintainable perl is nearly as rare as maintainable APL. Hmm, there's also enough obfuscated C around, not only in the IOCCC. :-) The number of people who write maintenable code in scripting languages seems to be increasing these days. I don't think we need to stop this. > Again, you are correct in your response to my statement, which was at > least partially mistaken. As mentioned elsewhere (hackers), my *real* > complaint is about the failure to adhere to what I understand to be a > reasonable modular dependency scheme in the global structure of > FreeBSD. I think i agree with your here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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