Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:54:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <199606222154.OAA22856@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4653.835470267@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 22, 96 12:04:27 pm
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> Now, lets pull the next holy cow into the open and look at it ? > > Here's why I don't complain and scream about perl in FreeBSD. > > Disk-space is cheap. > > The reason the "software-tools" concept has been as successful as it > has is that the tools were available, even if you didn't actually > need them or even wanted them to be available. Here's why I complain and scream about PERL in FreeBSD. FreeBSD, true to it's UNIX heritage, is a tools-based OS. PERL is a tool (fine so far). PERL scripts are not tools (the kicker). The problem I have with scripting will continue to be a problem until the /etc/rc* data embedding mess goes away so I can upgrade a system by overwriting everything but "/var/conf", or a similar directory, and by leaving the /home partition alone, with nothing else sacred. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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