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

I am still waiting to this diff myself.

On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:

> I guess I'm saying in these trying times it is considered disrespectful
> to dismiss completely labour-unsupported "ideas", obviously once we accept
> the Great Idea the OP will sit down and do all the required work to prove
> the cast after the fact.
>
> Eric Zylstra <ezylstra@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Proposing such a huge project without the ability to do it? I may have
> been a little disrespectful, but not the first one in the thread. And my
> point wasn't to be disrespectful, but to point out that most proposals
> unaccompanied by code and that don't solve obvious problems don't seem to
> be received very well. Apologies if that wasn't within bounds.
> >
> > E
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Dec 31, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Isn't it a bit disrespectful to assume someone on misc@ is going to
> > > write such a large diff?
> > >
> > >> Maybe the OP could just go ahead and replace all the Perl code with
> Lua and then ask for feedback from the other devs? That is the OpenBSD
> way, right? If it really is a great idea, they'd all be really excited.
> In any case, it would kill this thread.
> > >>
> > >> EZ
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my iPhone
> > >>
> > >>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Daniel Corbe <daniel@corbe.net> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I like where this thread is headed.
> > >>>
> > >>> To expand on this idea, maybe we should demonstrate how diversity and
> > >>> inclusiveness can work in an operating system via language choices.
> > >>> Why stop at TCL and LUA? Or even scripting languages in general.
> Why
> > >>> not Go, Rust, Haskell and Scala too?
> > >>>
> > >>> Hear me out. We can set up a raffle system so that each winner can
> > >>> write their winning tool in their language of choice. All the
> > >>> parallel development will even solve the "multi year effort" problem
> > >>> that was brought up by the original poster too. Nobody will mind
> > >>> having another 8 or 9 languages in the base system, right?
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
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