From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 08:25:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23379 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23372 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28274; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:24:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199708131524.LAA28274@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl? Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <5squ47$qho$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >I was in the process of adding some flexibility to newsyslog, and decided >to just rewrite the darn thing in perl5. >Essentially I added the ability to datestamp the logfiles, and a couple of >other things. >I can always call it something else (newnewsyslog?), but I was wondering >if FreeBSD Inc would consider utilities that were not written in C? Seems >like there was some discussion about lack of tools in TCL and Perl, but >I'm not sure about the politics of tool replacement, as opposed to tool >addition. >Anyway, just curious. I'd hate to see FreeBSD go the way of Microsoft, slow and bloated. Please, no perl unless absolutely neccesary! -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich