From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 12:28:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB5B37B405; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA24751; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:51:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Capo Sobral , Mike Smith , Kazutaka YOKOTA , dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-Reply-To: <3B967514.1040508@tcoip.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote: > > > >>When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value > >>of environment variables from the FICL environment. > >> > > ... > > > >>Anyway, I have been too busy lately to do anything with FreeBSD that > >>is not directly related to things I have to do at work, and it doesn't > >>look like slacking up so soon. So, unfortunately, I don't have time to > >>do any of the little things that have been cropping up with loader. > >> > > > > A very good reason the loader should have used something other then a > > language only 1% of the FreeBSD committers (and entire community) has > > knowledge of. > > /me shrugs > > I myself questioned the wisdom of using Forth at the time, and Jordan > simply replied I was free to find a more popular language with a freely > available interpreter that would fit in as small a space as FICL did. there is a Basic interpeter that fits in 1024 bytes that could be used if extended to know about files :-) > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net > > True leadership is the art of changing > a group from what it is to what it ought to be. > -- Virginia Allan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message