Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Shawn Walker writes:
>> Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>>> Yes, Sun has made two big mistakes: Implementing IPS in Python, and
>>> ditching scripting capability in the packages. I'm sure these seemed
>> I continue to see assertions that pkg(5) should not have been written in
>> python with little justification for this claim.
>
> Hmmm... I will readily admit that you're working on fixing the
> performance issues, and improving overall efficiency, so the situation
> is better now than it was when pkg(5) was first released into the wild.
>
> However, there is also the fact that Sun had already committed to
> a scripting language, Perl. There was a statement that Perl was a core
> part of Solaris and would always be present on the miniroot. (I am
> not saying that Perl would be markedly faster here.)
And there can be only one? Doesn't that mean perl was also a mistake since
Sun had already committed to sh as a scripting language available on the
miniroot? (Just taking your argument to its logical conclusion - I'm a heavy
perl user myself, so think both perl & python have their place in the core OS.)
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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