From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 20 0: 2:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F4837B416 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id A6DF73EBE; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:04:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D5EBAA7; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:04:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:04:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: , Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret In-Reply-To: <200112200511.fBK5Bpl05690@prism.flugsvamp.com> Message-ID: <20011220030222.T21508-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >However, replacing Perl with C will be accepted, (and is being done too). >So if you produce suitable working code, it will find its way into the tree. I would assume that also holds true for replacing Perl will sh/awk/sed/etc? There are some things obviously implemented in Perl because C sucks at them. Awk can do a lot of those things quite well. Awk has just fallen into the shadows behind the sledgehammer of programming languages, Perl. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message