Request for Feedback: proposed config(8) improvement

[Chris Pressey]

On 07 Mar 2004 05:43:40 GMT
"Justin C. Sherrill" <justin at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chris Pressey <cpressey at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:20040306204029.23e686d5.cpressey at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 
> 
> > Will I be able to keep using
> > Perl, or will it disappear from the base system, forcing me to use
> > C?(NOTE: I do not necessarily think that this would be a *bad* thing
> > ;)
> 
> If you're going to generate something new, and it's not going to
> significantly slow you down to do so, do it in C.  The dependency on
> Perl may or may not go away, but there's no reason to add to it. 

OK.  Right now I'm using Perl to hack up the data-mining scripts.  Once
I know exactly what data has to be mined, I'll translate them to C.

-Chris