Tuesday, December 31, 2019

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

On 31/12/19 3:54 pm, Marc Espie wrote:
> Contrary to what some people might think, the tools in question won't be
> easier to understand and manage if written in another language.

I'm of the opinion that "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". What is
"broken" about Perl that we're trying to fix with a replacement (whether
it be Lua, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, TCL, alb, BASIC … or something else)?
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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