System configuration

[William Park]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:02:02AM -0500, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 22:19, William Park wrote:
> > > Interest in Linuxconf collapsed shortly thereafter, alongside the
> > > failure of similar ambitions in Caldera's COAS system.
...
> > I could write Linuxconf in shell (and its friends), if they paid me.
> 
> The sheer amount of arbitrary text processing required makes perl an
> easier choice for those kinds of modules, hence the success of Webmin
> and, relative, failure of Linuxconf.  Of course, by an informal
> extension to the Church-Turing Thesis we can claim that all languages
> are equally powerful, so yeah, you could do it shell.  But I don't
> know if there's enough money out there to make it worth my while to
> write something like that in shell.  Ick....

Nonsense.  How does $100,000 (for something that will take one month)
sound to you?

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