Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Bradley M. Kuhn
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 21:55

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In article <BOBO.94Nov4122055@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov>,
Mark Friedman <bobo@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>In article <396t37$geq@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen
><tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:
  [Tom's dislike of lispy sysadmin deleted]

>Tom, you repeatedly complain about having lispy sysadmin files and
>comparing GEL to shell languages (i.e. (k|ba)sh  and perl) or text filters
>(i.e. sed, awk). But GEL is not meant to be used like those
>languages. It is meant as an extension language (like elisp or Tcl) to
>be part of an application.
>


However, at some point, many sysadmin programs will have a common extension
language.  In herd, this will be GEL, I am sure....


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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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