From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 15:52:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA21143 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21129 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA07522 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:52:12 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA01995 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:52:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA15198 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:50:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606242250.AAA15198@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:50:48 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606240118.UAA08752@compound.Think.COM> from Tony Kimball at "Jun 23, 96 08:18:36 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)