On 3/5/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Darren J Moffat writes:
> > HOWEVER, I would really, really have preferred to see PSARC discourage
> > or even disallow the use of perl for "core platform technology". (This
> > goes for Python, Tcl, and some of the other scripting languages that
> > abound these days.)
>
> I don't think ARC is the place to do this. It isn't really architecture
> but more implementation. The C-Teams for the various consolidations
> together with the OpenSolaris communities that represent the
> consolidations can create such rules if they wish.
I disagree. The burden placed on the overall system due to the use of
Perl (or any other implementation choice) _is_ an architectural issue.
What about using shell scripts instead of perl? Oh, wait... I
forgot... Solaris doesn't use ksh93 as /bin/sh. What a pity :-(
Cheers,
William
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