From: Byron Rakitzis <byron@knoware.nl>
To: bengt@dynas.se, noel@jpmorgan.com
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: problems with an rc script called from cron
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:59:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199806051559.IAA00500@knoware.nl> (raw)
> I had and interesting discussion with Byron about this when he
> first released rc. His response was somewhat less than favourable.
Well, I am not sure I see any change since then that would make my
opinion of "if not" more favorable. First of all, it's just the
wrong way to write a conditional. It reminds me more of assembly
language programming than any high level language I know! If I
remember correctly Duff's paper also describes it as a bug in the
language spec. Secondly, rc (my reimplementation) has been around
now for 7 years and to break the syntax over a quibble like this
seems to me contrary to what we've worked for to this point: a
stable, reliable shell. Thirdly, I am not aware of what the state
of plan 9 is these days, but I assume from a practical point of view
it's at best a curiosity, and no one has ever written to me about
the need for interoperating unix and plan 9 rc scripts.
So I just don't see any reason to make this change.
Byron.
next reply other threads:[~1998-06-07 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-05 15:59 Byron Rakitzis [this message]
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1998-05-31 5:56 Noel Hunt
1998-05-26 6:25 bengt
1998-05-24 14:35 Joseph Skinner
1998-05-26 14:28 ` Paul Haahr
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