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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:57:51 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, danfe@regency.nsu.ru (Alexey Dokuchaev), Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scripting language in base system?
Message-ID:  <p05111715b9592dbce76a@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200207160112.g6G1CIgH020442@dotar.thuvia.org>
References:  <200207160112.g6G1CIgH020442@dotar.thuvia.org>

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At 2:12 AM +0100 7/16/02, Mark Valentine wrote:
>  > From: danfe@regency.nsu.ru (Alexey Dokuchaev)
>
>  > Traditionally, UNIX lived for 30+ years without need for a
>>  monster like Perl or Ruby, in the base, clearly showing us that
>>  sh/awk/sed is a [very] decent scripting facility.
>
>Though I did breathe a sigh of relief when shell functions became
>common enough to be useful... ;-)
>
>I've never really wanted for anything since.  Except maybe for
>make(1) to have a standard conditional syntax.

Perhaps that is the problem.  Me, I want a good package-system, but
all the 30-year sh/sed/awk veterans don't seem to see a need for it.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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