Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:46:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? Message-ID: <199508210216.LAA22114@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508201054.MAA00921@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 20, 95 12:54:26 pm
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Wolfram Schneider stands accused of saying: > Peter da Silva writes: > >>Why not making a m4 macro package like in sendmail? > > > >Because it's actually easier and more convenient to do it in tcl. This > >sort of custom metalanguage is what tcl is designed for: > > tcl syntax is silly. The manpages are really bad (compared to > perl). tcl is actually a package and not in bindist. Perl, OTOH, is slow and bloated, and its syntax is merely incomprehensible. In all sincerity, perl and tcl are both useful tools. For the nominated task, neither is actually appropriate per se, as the aim is to come up with a _simple_ tool for generating kernel configs, not another processed-textfile mangler with a custom syntax and no precedent. > Wolfram -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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