From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 03:35:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA14264 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 03:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA14250 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 03:35:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id LAA19068 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:35:08 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:34:52 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA05243; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:34:41 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) id LAA03549; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:33:31 GMT To: Terry Lambert Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards), davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! References: <199611212020.NAA13799@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 22 Nov 1996 11:33:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:20:48 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <5720dmgy9h.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > Actually, you use sh to run /etc/rc* each time you boot. It is a > minimal system component, mostly because the data and the procedure > for system startup have not been sufficiently abstracted. If they > had, you could replace the startup procedure with a binary and throw > /bin/sh away. I tend to agree. Obviously I know that /bin/sh is used for startup but we could replace it with perl :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155