From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 17 17:35:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA07175 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 17:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07154 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 17:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA01240; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:13:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA27678; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:14:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:14:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Søren Schmidt cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl? In-Reply-To: <199708172040.WAA00331@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA07171 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote: [re: make the world with perls] > base utils. For one this is a total waste of time (and maybe talent), Of course, perhaps the holder of this time & talent has no interest in doing anything "better". :-) > the other is that it will render us completely incompatible with the > rest of the BSD world. I think that nobody would be stupid enough to > willingly takeover that kind of maintenance burden... No, since presumably we will gain such huge advantages by rewriting everything in perl that the rest of the BSD world will have little choice but to adopt our version. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk