Much of this discussion (talking about MS-DOS, assembler code, etc.)
has no real place for debian developers. I've asked Bruce to say
something, and he told me to ask you all to please move this
discussion off the list. Please take it to private e-mail or
something for now.
Jim
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kai Henningsen writes:
That's a problem, but it's not the problem I meant. For difficult to
parse, well, compare these two lines:
a =~ s/some/thing...
b = c/d
Very bad syntax design, that.
There's always s,some,thing, or s|some|thing| or whatever.
Either
Dan Stromberg wrote:
For this reason we decided that Perl would be on our base disks, and
that packages could use it (well, the subset that's on the base disks)
in their preinst/postrm. Packages which want something else must
Depend on it and may only use it in their postinst/prerm.
I'm sure C and Assembler fit cryptic too. Just think how much further
advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been
invented.
And how much further would the industry be, if C had been typesafe (or
if some other, typesafe language had been used)? The
Brian C. White wrote:
Dan Stromberg wrote:
There's clearly a place for a stronger scripting language, despite the
argument posed above. It's just very sad that it should be perl. perl
really fits into many people's stereotypes of unix as inherently
cryptic monster, very neatly.
I'm
You (Dan Stromberg) wrote:
Ian Jackson wrote:
sh is not suitable for many of the things Perl gets used for -
consider update-inetd, update-info c.
Actually, a /bin/sh script to add inetd.conf entries, and another to
remove entries keyed off the service field, was unmentionably simple
I'm sure C and Assembler fit cryptic too. Just think how much further
advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been
invented.
As to assembler, there are lots of _very_ different styles of writing it;
there is no one Assembler language. It's quite impossible
Ian Jackson wrote:
We only have room for one `extra' scripting language, besides the
usual sh, awk, sed, c, on the base disks.
Perl is widely known. It can solve most problems. There are problems
for which it is difficult to get it to work, but these don't often
occur at installation
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