From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 18:18:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 237D737B406 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 01:18:05 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B96CECC.3030909@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:18:04 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , 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 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message