Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:05:17 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl? Message-ID: <199708180705.JAA01835@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970817191153.25065A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Aug 17, 97 07:14:10 pm"
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In reply to Tim Vanderhoek who wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote:
>
> [re: make the world with perls]
>
> > base utils. For one this is a total waste of time (and maybe talent),
>
> Of course, perhaps the holder of this time & talent has no
> interest in doing anything "better". :-)
Hmm, right...
> > the other is that it will render us completely incompatible with the
> > rest of the BSD world. I think that nobody would be stupid enough to
> > willingly takeover that kind of maintenance burden...
>
> No, since presumably we will gain such huge advantages by
> rewriting everything in perl that the rest of the BSD world will
> have little choice but to adopt our version.
That will be the day :), well at least we will serve the same purpose
as Micro$lot then, make sure that you have to get the latest greatest
hardware to get mediocre performance, sigh....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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