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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. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 95 08:15:48 +1000."
             <199504012215.IAA21533@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 15:57:23 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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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