From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 24 7: 5:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0A337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (claudel.noos.net [212.198.2.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E2D43E4A for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 33786849 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2002 13:53:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.83 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jul 2002 13:53:23 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (xvws1jrbiuymh2u5@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6ODrMq4013453; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:53:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6ODrLw4013452; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:53:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:53:21 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Mark Valentine Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <20020724135321.GB4475@gits.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Cyrille Lefevre , Mark Valentine , "Brian F. Feldman" , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207231916.g6NJGTj47459@green.bikeshed.org> <200207232048.g6NKmHQe028433@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207232048.g6NKmHQe028433@dotar.thuvia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:48:17PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > There's room for a real language instead of just extending sh. > > There are plenty to choose from, but there are currently no clear candidates > for the base system. well, I have a very low knowledge about zsh, but it has many features (maybe too much, IMHO) such as associative arrays and builtin dynamic loading... > Considering the amount of code I've written in it, the Bourne shell seems > "real" enough for me. > > And it's already installed. personnaly, I prefer ksh over sh. unfortunately, ksh93 isn't usable and ksh88 (or pdksh) are missing some stuffs like associative arrays, builtin dynamic loading (pdksh), etc. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message