Monday, December 30, 2019

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> wrote:

> Removing perl from base would be very painful.
>
> I don't fancy rewriting all the perl tools in something else (specifically,
> most of the ports and package infrastructure)
>
> lua would definitely NOT be appropriate for that. The only half valid
> candidate would be python.
>
> Contrary to what some people might think, the tools in question won't be
> easier to understand and manage if written in another language.
>

Contrary to what you think, the original proposal didn't come out of
a process called thinking.

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