From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 10:35:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22665 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:35:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22659 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:35:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA34944; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:33:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:33:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Mark Murray cc: Mike Smith , John Birrell , forrie@forrie.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Buildworld fails In-Reply-To: <199812161545.RAA04870@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > If we had Tcl in the base system, this would be trivial. I don't want > > to use Perl at all - one is simply told that Perl is the be-all and > > end-all of hackish scripting languages, but it truly appears to be too > > fragile for that. > > I have developed such a hatred for perl, that I may even be convincable > that it get kicked out of the base system. ;-) Other technically acceptable options exist, including rexx (at least 2 free, actively maintained versions) and ruby (ports/lang/ruby). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message