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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
  • Date: 08 Oct 2002 14:44:26 -0400

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 13:02, Nick Jennings wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:46:19AM -0700, Aaron Brice wrote:
> > Simplicity? Have you looked at the sorcery functions, at the many
> > awkward for/cut/grep loops that would be one-line perl functions?
>
> Since when was a perl one-liner ever acknowledged for being "simple" ?
> (Before you try to explain the benefits of perl, I want to let you
> know I am a long time perl hacker).
>
> I happen to think the shell scripts are extremely messed up right now,
> mostly due to the infrastructure that Kyle put in place, and especially
> around cast & dependencies. However, I don't think just by switching to
> perl we will fix the problem.
*sigh* cast and depends... yeah :/
But with any luck, depends will be rewritten soon anyways.

>
> Design is the issue, not language, and I'm convinced we could improve
> our tools immensly, even if we stayed with bash.
Hear Hear!!
Stay with bash!


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