Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:04:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: <mwm-dated-1009255696.e529b9@mired.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret Message-ID: <20011220030222.T21508-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200112200511.fBK5Bpl05690@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >However, replacing Perl with C will be accepted, (and is being done too). >So if you produce suitable working code, it will find its way into the tree. I would assume that also holds true for replacing Perl will sh/awk/sed/etc? There are some things obviously implemented in Perl because C sucks at them. Awk can do a lot of those things quite well. Awk has just fallen into the shadows behind the sledgehammer of programming languages, Perl. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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