Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:49:12 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed Message-ID: <hod8p8$iuc$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <201003241002.56335.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201003231108.45102.jhb@freebsd.org> <hod31p$qlc$1@dough.gmane.org> <201003241002.56335.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 03/24/10 15:02, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 9:11:21 am Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 03/23/10 16:08, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> [snip - looks like a good utility, will probably use it instead of >> mergemaster if it gets committed, like the idea about automated updates] >> >>> To that end, I wrote a new tool that I think does a decent job of solving >>> these goals. >> >> Since the issue comes around very rarely, I assume there are not many >> people who also get the shivers when they see a shell script (and then a >> "posixy" /bin/sh shell script) more than a 100 lines long? :) >> >> Wouldn't it be nice to have a "blessed" (i.e. present-in-base) script >> language interpreter with a syntax that has evolved since the 1970-ies? >> (with a side-glance to C that *has* evolved since the K&R style). > > "You can write Fortran in any language." I feel I should quote some saying from a holy book saying "Ah, but some languages make it harder than the others!" but I don't know of any such :) > If there are specific things in specific scripts that are poorly commented or > implemented then I would work on fixing those. The same is true of the > mountain of C code in the tree. Rewriting them in a different language will > not automatically make them any better. C is good enough. I'm after /bin/sh here. > "Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best > you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language > or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will > not rescue a bad programmer." (Kernighan and Pike) I'll accept it.
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