From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 15:21:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24989 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24983 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:21:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12775; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:21:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:21:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611212321.QAA12775@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: References: <199611212046.NAA13887@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199611211714.SAA01528@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199611212141.OAA12035@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199611212245.PAA12448@rocky.mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Wackerbarth writes: > >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. I've never seen an offer before, so I can't comment. > 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. Show me the above, and we'll go from there. Nate