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Article #7128Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
From: Richard Pitre
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 13:15
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 13:15
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In article <BOBO.94Nov1113037@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov> bobo@avogadro.arc.nasa.gov (Mark Friedman) writes: > In article <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen > <tchrist@usenix.org> writes: > > > > Can you imagine all dot files and config files and macro files and > rc files all being in one syntax? > > No, and who says they should be. In fact, the more powerful the > extension language the more freedom it gives to the developer to > define appropriate syntaxes for config files because he has more tools > with which to parse and interpret those files. > It takes less time to lay in God's own favorite syntax on top of Scheme than it does to make some of these posts. Richard
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