From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 5 19:48:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09381 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09376 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: (from petrilli@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA12067; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981005224801.49099@amber.org> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:01 -0400 From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" To: FreeBSD Small Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Small References: <199810060100.VAA03187@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199810060100.VAA03187@whizzo.transsys.com>; from Louis A. Mamakos on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:00:37PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:00:37PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > >Not even that. IOS's command interface is a festering abomination. > > >Emulating it would be a major error. > > > > Want to support yer statement? =) Just curious about the how and why... > > It's horrible. > > It suffers from trying to be backwards comptible with ancient code, and > being extended into new and wonderful directions. When I worked for a large Telco, we were using over 500 undocumented hacks in the IOS configuration "language" to tweak things, and often if you used one way to set something, it would behave differently than if you did another. Let's just accept it sucks, and design somethin that avoids such bogocity. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message