This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Well, cfengine docs relentlessly refer to 'scripting'
>cfengine and cfengine scripts, so if it quacks like a 
>duck ...

I guess... I call them 'inputs' because that's the environment variable
and the default directory name that cfagent looks in.

>In fact I think I read somewhere that the only reason it
>isn't perl/python is that cfengine predates those two.

You possibly read that, cfengine celebrated its 10th birthday last
year, but I'm sure perl's been around longer than that.

>I've also seen mentions of people re-implementing something
>like cfengine, but with python or perl.

You can reimplement it (or do something totally different with the same
goals) pretty trivially by tying together some CPAN modules.

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