Re: source dependencies cleanup? (fwd)
Keith Rohrer (rohrer@obey.reply-to.line)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 23:34:24 -0600 (CST)
> > > You could write the Configure program in Common LISP, also!
> > > Common LISP's source is only 16871K, after all, and
> > > it's *much* more powerful and easy to use than BASH!
> >
> > Thanks, but no thanks. The one LISP class I took a few years ago was
> > enough LISP for me. :-)
> > Now COBOL...there's an idea... *grin*
> Heck, why not Smalltalk? Or Forth? Or Prolog? >;]
None of those are particularly suited to the task. Howsabout Intercal (with
its paucity of features, it should be easy to support) or "sendmail.cf" (the
language most people dealing with extremely hairy configurations are used
to already)? Plus, most everyone has sendmail, and most everyone who
has sendmail has up-to-the-minute sources.
Keith