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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:25:35 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base
Message-ID:  <86r5hqzn2o.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <4C711207.5090608@FreeBSD.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:03:19 %2B0200")
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Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Looks a bit like a swing.  First we remove Perl from the base system
> (years ago) and move to sed/awk, now we discuss using a scripting
> language in the base system...

Read the discussion from the beginning.  We are discussing introducing a
domain-specific scripting language, not a general-purpose one.

BTW, most of the Perl scripts we had were rewritten in C, not sed / awk.

DES
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