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Article #7096Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
From: Mark Friedman
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 20:20
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 20:20
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In article <396t37$geq@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: I know that don't look forward to a GNUOS where sysadmin files are in lisp; I doubt whether other many sysadmins do either. While I don't really think this will be done for the hurd, you never know. Even if it's the C-like scheme front end, it'll be so radically different from other systems which use (k|ba)sh, sed, awk, and perl for their admin that it will annoy a lot of folks. Tom, you repeatedly complain about having lispy sysadmin files and comparing GEL to shell languages (i.e. (k|ba)sh and perl) or text filters (i.e. sed, awk). But GEL is not meant to be used like those languages. It is meant as an extension language (like elisp or Tcl) to be part of an application. -Mark -- Mark Friedman NASA-Ames Research Center MS 269-2 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 vmail: (415) 604-0573 email: bobo@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-04 12:20:55 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!usenet From: bobo@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov (Mark Friedman) Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of 2 Nov 1994 02:21:27 GMT Message-ID: <BOBO.94Nov4122055@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov> Lines: 25 Sender: usenet@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov (usenet@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov) Nntp-Posting-Host: avogadro.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: bobo@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Ames Information Sciences References: <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <19941102T005432Z.enag@naggum.no> <396t37$geq@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 20:20:55 GMT