/usr boot time dependencies

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Aug 20 22:45:06 UTC 2003


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Paul Jakma wrote:

> it'd be worth it though! certainly be cleaner, awk is far more 
> expressive and featured than shell.

But shell is much more widely known. New admins today seem to learn 
shell, then perl, and skip right over awk.

Things like that are important now that it's a community project....

later,
chris





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