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Subject: Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base
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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.

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