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In-Reply-To: <199606222154.OAA22856@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 22, 96 02:54:28 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > 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).

That's just stupid.  Perl scripts _can_ be tools.  Some may be, some
may not be, depending on your point of view.

> 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.

This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "scripting".  It doesn't
matter whether code is optimised opcodes or raw text being fed through a
parser; it's what it does that's significant.

> 					Terry Lambert

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