Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

From: Nicos Gollan (gtdev_at_spearhead.de)
Date: 01/31/04

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:02:55 +0100
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    On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700
    "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:

    > It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must
    > be either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent
    > would I be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python
    > or perl? It seems like perl is required for an awful lot of debian
    > tools.

    You can depend on perl, there is no debian without perl. You can recover
    from a botched libc6, but break your perl installation and you pretty
    much have to reinstall from scratch. 

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