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[Peter Schneider-Kamp <nowonder AT i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>]

M.L. wrote:
> Right but is it really necessary to reinvent the weel in bash ?
>
> I'm not part of the developer team, but I thinks being 100% bash based is not 
> the main SMGL's goal. Then, it's not even the easyest way to do certain 
> things, as you said.

Although I *do* love bash (and have contributed a few lines of bash
code), I am pretty sure I would not want an all bash SMGL.

Talk about speed and, of course, reinventing the wheel. For example
replacing init with a bash version would only make sense to me
if it significantly improved on init. Why replace something that is
perfectly stable, well-understood and does its job like a machine?

  The power of bash is *combining* standard tools in an
  easy and comfortable way - not *replacing* them!

Greetings and thumbs up for the development team,
Peter

P.S.: <DISCLAIMER>I'm not on the developer team, either.</DISCLAIMER>
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