Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 22:40:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl? Message-ID: <199708172040.WAA00331@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19970817141632.FT54182@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 17, 97 02:16:32 pm"
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> As Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> > I can always call it something else (newnewsyslog?), but I was
> > wondering if FreeBSD Inc would consider utilities that were not
> > written in C?
>
> If the advantages of the prospective rewrite would outweigh the
> disadvantages (like slower startup and higher CPU load), there are
> usually only objections by the (not very large) ``anti-bloatist
> club''.
Give us a break, will ya :)
> The 80 % accepted opinion of the core team is that new languages, and
> scripting languages in particular, might have their right to exist if
> they really offer advantage when and where they are used (like easier
> code maintenance, much improved features, etc.) We are in the 1990's,
> not in the 1970's. But before you're going to rewrite something that
> does already exist, look whether it will be justified.
I wouldn't bet on that 80% factor, if somebody is going to rewrite the
base utils. For one this is a total waste of time (and maybe talent),
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...
If I want useless bloat (useless meaning just rewrites here), I'll go
use Micro$oft's products, that way I can get all the useless bloat
I can even imagine...
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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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