Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:18:04 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Capo Sobral <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <3B96CECC.3030909@yahoo.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109051250090.24154-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
>
BASIC is evil incarnate! :^)
jim
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