Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:53:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, terry@lambert.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, ron@infi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960705194947.13527F-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607052215.PAA15685@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry> Tcl/tk are OK for the fornt end tool, but not the backend > > Terry> implementation. > > > > But it'd be perfect for providing an *interface* to the backend > > implementation. That's one of Tcl's strongest features: it's easily > > embeddable---and you get a set of nice scripting primitives as a > > bonus. > > Keep the scripting away from the tools proper, please. I don't > want to *have* to run Tcl to administer my system, but I can > understand that other people may want to run it to administer theirs. This isn't clear to me, Terry ... Keep any software capable of accepting a script away from a prime scripting application .... hmmm, would you have said the same to a perl script, or a shell script? This sounds somewhat inconsistent, I'd like you to amplify on it, if you would. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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