On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:33:22AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> >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.
Yep, though it only really spurted in popularity when
the camel book was published ('90) and cgi programming took
off ('93 ?). So, roughly the same age.
Certainly, perl was standard on any unix. (although hp-ux
had/has the 4.019 version (1991) in it's contrib package)
> >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.
I was probably thinking of cfperl, which is really a companion
to cfengine by the looks of it.
Anyway, what might _really_ satisfy the original question
is pikt (http://pikt.org). Yet again another scripting language
but it doesn't have age as an excuse.
Matt
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