From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 18:23:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F95150AB for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:22:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02018; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:22:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:22:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199909300122.VAA02018@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joe Abley Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL breakage... In-Reply-To: <19990930102350.A25061@patho.gen.nz> References: <37F20376.64A46CEA@newsguy.com> <199909291002.MAA52950@gratis.grondar.za> <19990929230549.F10020@patho.gen.nz> <199909292217.QAA06450@harmony.village.org> <19990930102350.A25061@patho.gen.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> FWIW, one mus have perl installed to build a kernel. > Is that desirable? Or do we need more awk? Um, yes. The reason we have Perl in the base system is so that programs like this can be written -- in a way that (a) doesn't involve a seventeen-pipeline shell script, and (b) is maintainable by people whose names are not Aho, Weinberger, or Kernighan. -GAWollman PS: Yes, I know that awk is standardized. That doesn't make it any clearer when the program is doing something other than iterating over each line in an input file. -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message