Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:08:33 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-ID: <199803021208.EAA10350@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:01:41 PST." <Pine.LNX.3.96.980302035649.22222B-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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> On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > I don't have many comments --- well okay at work we got a 20000 line > > system install thingy all written in shell try debugging that 8) > > <granted thats one bad extreme> > > > > Traditional scripting languages for unix, sh, csh , tcsh are > > a bit antiquated and downright awkward to work with. > > > > Java is extensible and its supporting structure is intensively being > > worked on . > > I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be > written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is > still more flexible and efficient than java. Yeap, I have to agree that C++ is significantly faster than Java for system configuration 8) BTW: you forgot who was going to write the nice X stuff for a C++ based program that is if we are still talking about a GUI tool . Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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