Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:01:41 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: 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: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980302035649.22222B-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <199803021135.DAA10153@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > I don't have many comments --- well okay at work we got a 20000 line > system install thingy all written in shell try debugging that 8) > <granted thats one bad extreme> > > 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 . I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is still more flexible and efficient than java. [long-winged explanation about incompleteness and impurity of OOP in C++ and reasons for accepting it as tradeof for efficiency, better interface with OS and portability is omitted here] -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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