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

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 15:05

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:-> In comp.lang.misc, lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis) writes:
:I don't find it odd at all.  GNU is partially about choice.  

Only in an odd way.

:The idea
:that you can choose the environment you want.  If you like Perl, use
:it.  If people like it enough, there may be a Perl->GNU Extension Lang
:compiler, so that you can write your extensions in Perl.

Why ever would you want it to run slower?  Far better to make a C API for
the GEL and not restrict which language people make bindings for.

:It's still nice to standardize, though.  And I think RMS' proposal is
:a standard full of choices.

We all see what we want to see, apparently.

--tom
-- 
Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com
    Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you 
    to stop writing.
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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