Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:51:56 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980302044401.22222E-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <E0y9U9Y-0007Ko-00@oak71.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > > > 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) > > I disagree, C++ may be faster than Java, but that difference is not > significant when doing GUI-type system administration. On the client side -- maybe, but when I am remotely changing something on a system that already is in some kind of trouble (and possibly has a lot of resources used up), I will rather depend on something small, fast, and preferrably kept running, and sleeping most of time. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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