Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:15:21 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? Message-ID: <199508210315.VAA01937@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:46:14 %2B0930
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: Perl, OTOH, is slow and bloated, and its syntax is merely incomprehensible. I don't think we want to get into a flame war about syntax here. Both can be incomprehensible, and neither are the best syntax for representing a kernel configuration. Personally, I love Perl's syntax and find TCL an utter nightmare, but I know that others differ. Personally, I really like the current config files. Maybe I'm weird, but they are useful, and a lot more "portable" from machine to machine than the way Linux, say, generates kernels (or did in the 1.1.x timeframe). That's not to say that a tool couldn't be written in perl or tcl. However, unless one of these is in bindist, I'd argue loudly and strongly that you don't want to rely on external, non-standard tools to generate something as basic as a kernel. m4 isn't bad, imho. Given what it has done with the sendmail.cf file mess, I think it might be a fruitful path to follow. The syntax might be ugly, true, but it would have the advantage of working on a fairly minimal system. Just my two cents. Warner
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