From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 16:44:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D586437B405; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id A675110DDF9; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:44:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:44:49 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David O'Brien Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020212164449.R63886@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> <20020212172042.R2668-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <20020212143321.D5014@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020212143321.D5014@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:33:21PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [020212 14:33] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:23:31PM -0500, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > In message: <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> > > > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > : * M. Warner Losh [020212 10:35] wrote: > > > > > > Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-) > ... > > > > I hope you don't mean pdksh. As the stock sh under OpenBSD we've > > found it to be annoyingly buggy. Fortunately we rebased our appliance > > product to FreeBSD and don't have to deal with it any longer. > > > IS IT IN THE LEAST BIT POSSIBLE TO STAY ON TOPIC ON FREEBSD LISTS > ANYMORE??? And we wonder why so many do not bother with them any more. Please refrain from acting like a turd towards someone doing a bit of advocacy as well as offering some real world advice to us about something we may be considering. I know perl is evil, but sh just isn't powerful enough and awk looks like line noise for the most part, and C is way painful for parsing, just looking for alternatives. Basically, take a pill David. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message