Re: Remove BIND, Sendmail, Perl and etc from base?

[Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Garrett wrote:
> It makes sense to use languages for what they are good at.
> Perl is good for somthings, Awk others. As for the package 
> management system. A good look at what is required of it
> would be the first thing to do, then we can decide what 
> tools to use to best accomplish that goal.

That's the problem.  Except for the corner cases, almost all of the 
popular scripting languages will do equally well for the types of 
programming we are discussing.  Religious issues aside, it doesn't take 
much sophistication from a language to be able to write an "adduser" 
script.  Life would be a lot easier if one of the languages really stood 
out among the crowd.

Richard Coleman