Date: 22 Nov 1996 11:33:30 +0000 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 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! Message-ID: <5720dmgy9h.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:20:48 -0700 (MST) References: <199611212020.NAA13799@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 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
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