Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 15:57:23 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org, joerg@sax.de, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <10140.796780643@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 95 08:15:48 %2B1000." <199504012215.IAA21533@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> You mean, like /bin/mv is a 20 line C program (I'll allow a generous > factor of 10 for perl's superiority over C) :-). > > (/bin/mv has to be very complicated to handle things like recursive > moves across file systems, preserving all attributes.) Silly Bruce! :-) We're talking about /stand tools here - they don't have to sing and dance, they just have to be able to carry out primitive operations and effect repair. And even if you're talking about a 2 line perl script vs a 2 line C program, the perl script will win just due to the overhead we incur in producing our well-padded a.outs! Jordan
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