From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 9:36: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B763137B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C2B43E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6GGZudW130496; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:35:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200207160340.g6G3eOw1024171@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <200207160340.g6G3eOw1024171@dotar.thuvia.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:35:55 -0400 To: Mark Valentine , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:40 AM +0100 7/16/02, Mark Valentine wrote: >drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) writes: > > I keep trying to write this message, listing my thoughts on >> scripting languages. While I can come up with a list of ideas >> that I completely agree with, the problem is that the items >> in that list conflict with each other, and thus I can't even >> come to a firm conclusion that *I* like. > >There are too many ideas to implement, never mind fit in a >single language. You're a step ahead of where I am. I meant listing my thoughts on just whether we even *should* have a higher-level scripting language in the base system -- never mind what it might look like! I have definite, firm opinions on both sides of the matter... > > This is an unwinnable debate, imo. > >Win?? I thought it was all about spreading mindshare, even >if just to a minority. ;-) Win? I can't even decide which side I'm on... [well, I'd definitely be happy to see a BSD-licensed ruby in the base system, but I can't really defend why it should be ruby as opposed to something else like python. I also know that tcl drives me nuts, even though I know other programmers who really like 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