From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 16 12:32:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0728637B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:32:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF15D19380; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:32:14 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f1GKWEB91166; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:32:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:32:14 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wish List (was: Re: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again) Message-ID: <20010216143214.B91104@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <200102162002.NAA07081@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102162002.NAA07081@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:02:20PM +0000 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:02:20PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Now if you wanted to shoot perl in the head, I'd be the first to > jump on your bandwagon; I _don't_ generally use perl, and for > things that need it, it could be a port. First, replace /bin/sh with ksh93. This will require minor twiddling with /etc/rc*. I think the `only' issue is use of the `local' in function definitions. But then again I haven't looked at it very closely. Then rewrite all the perl scripts. ksh93 programming is much advanced over ksh88 or other shells. Korn thinks that it is in the same category as Perl or Python. I don't agree with the latter from what I've seen, but "You've come a long way, baby," is appropriate. Then have flamewar here :-) -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message