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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Miles Bader |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
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Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:41:59 +0900 |
Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:
>> I suspect that many of our users are intimidated by regexes, and
>> can barely handle *that*. What on earth are we going to do with the
>> political reprocussions of having to tell them that they'll have to
>> learn a new language just to configure an archive?
>
> Think "configuration file syntax" instead of "language", then. There's
> presumably no obligation to use "language features" rather than things
> one might consider generic "configuration file format" if one doesn't
> want to.
Seriously. I don't think it will be suddenly necessary to write little
furth/whatever functions to do everything in tla, it will merely be
_possible_[*], and the defaults will be such that the average user
doesn't have to.
[*] Or not; it's always possible for furth to just be an internal
implementation detail (like hackerlab)...
-Miles
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Matthew Dempsky, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), James Blackwell, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Charles Duffy, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"),
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/06/30