Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:01:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <199603200901.KAA07487@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> from "Tony Kimball" at Mar 19, 96 04:39:06 pm
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As Tony Kimball wrote: > ./bin/makewhatis: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/catman: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/killall: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/sgmlfmt: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/which: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/adduser: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/kbdmap: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/vidfont: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/spkrtest: a /usr/bin/perl script text > > Not much. Eliminate it, and that reduces the installed base OS size > by 4MB, meaning more installations, more market share, better > differentiation from bloated commercial systems. Yuck. Nobody is eager in replacing them. Doing regexp and string operations in C is the least one does volunteerily, given that nice tools like Perl are available for it. It's not only that these things must be written (which you was kindly offering), they also must be *maintained*. I've recently written a 700-line Perl script that implements a mini Webserver. Nobody in the world would have made me writing this sort of things in C... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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