From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 15:19:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24782 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.skipstone.com (root@GATEWAY.SKIPSTONE.COM [198.214.10.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24774 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bugs.skipstone.com (bugs.skipstone.com [204.69.236.2]) by gateway.skipstone.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA16799; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:18:59 -0600 Received: from [204.69.236.50] (hotapplepie.skipstone.com [204.69.236.50]) by bugs.skipstone.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA30637; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:19:02 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199611212245.PAA12448@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <199611212046.NAA13887@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199611211714.SAA01528@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199611212141.OAA12035@rocky.mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:19:02 -0600 To: Nate Williams From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Heck, show me a working prototype that has 4 levels. > > Top level > / \ > Subdir1 Subdir2 > / / \ > P1 P2 ssubdir3 > / \ > P3 P4 > >Proof that you're way is 'better' is all that we're asking for. I have offered "samples" before, but that offer was rejected. The demand was that I demonstrate by showing it work on EVERYTHING. (ie fete complete) If you are willing to accept a sanitized "demo" which shows how I would handle the "recursive" nature of the present system, I can do that without "fixing" any of the current code. A "sample" library and a tool or two are all that should be required. This is a far different request from the one that I prove that I can do EVERYTHING.