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Date:      Mon, 02 Mar 1998 07:25:04 -0500
From:      Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. 
Message-ID:  <199803021225.HAA29946@spooky.rwwa.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 03:35:59 PST." <199803021135.DAA10153@rah.star-gate.com> 

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hasty@rah.star-gate.com said:
:- Traditional scripting languages for unix, sh, csh , tcsh are a bit
:- antiquated and downright awkward to work with.
:- Java is extensible and its supporting structure is intensively being
:- worked on .  

But old isn't necessarily bad, and Java isn't a scripting language.  And
scripting launguages have a very valuable role in this problem domain. 

Also, for a view of where scrpting languages live in modern design
methodologies, see

  http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/patterns/scripting/index.html

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