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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:43:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FICL & Perl
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901040841050.28333-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <36901450.B761AC7D@newsguy.com>

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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:27:19AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > > Is there any interest in getting rid of the perl script in the ficl
> > > build? It is a very legible script indeed, but not being able to set
> > > NOPERL is quite a nuisance for me. (As a bonus, my alternative
> > > doesn't have a small bug in Mr. Sadler's script :).
> > 
> > Depends on the size and clarity of the replacement.  Be aware that we
> > use perl5 in other parts of the build process, too - e.g, the device
> > config generation in the kernel build.
> 
> Well, it is about as readable as a state machine can be. I didn't

Ok, after this introduction, it begins to look scary to me.. :-) _What_
it's actually like, a 1.5MB Forth program? ;-)

Andrzej Bialecki

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