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- From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Programming Considered Harmful
- References: <1992Nov3.191253*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> <1992Nov4.194235.17074@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Nov5.225431*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 23:20:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.232031.7932@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov5.225431*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
- >While I cannot say that I entirely enjoy the freehand Perl style, I
- >certainly agree that it takes something more than basic *sh languages
- >as we've gotten to know them to do "real" programming. But since you
- >mention Makefiles, some of the toughest programming tasks I've ever been
- >through has actually been planting and maintaining pieces of Bourne shell
- >language into ravel Make configs.
- >
- >Which really suggests that if someone could come up with a Perl based
- >alternative to Make which could understand Perl language itself, the
- >programming world should do little but rejoice.
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- This is a plug :) At LISA VI down in Long Beach, a group of us got
- together (thanx to Paul Anderson) and started discussing software
- configuration and installation issues. An email list formed, and was
- announced over the "net" a couple of weeks back. If you are
- interested, I attached information on how to subscribe.
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- --Ace
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- This is to announce a new email list focusing on software
- installation and maintenance issues, following the workshop talk of
- LISA VI. Those who have received announcements from me already know
- that they are on the list, those that haven't should contact me
- directly please :)
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- TO SUBSCRIBE:
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- please send mail to: soft-managers-request@nas.nasa.gov
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- TO SEND TO THE LIST
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- please send mail to: soft-managers@nas.nasa.gov
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- Questions may be sent directly to me, and I will begin an FAQ. For
- those of you who have not received the notes from the meeting (thanx
- to Rob Slater for typing them in!!) please let me know and I will be
- sure to send them directly. They have been posted accordingly to
- comp.org.usenix
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- Cheers!
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