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Re: Time to rethink ifupdown



martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:
>> Python (and any language that depends on vast amounts of installed
>> infrastructure) seems a bit dodgy for a core low-level facility.
>
> It's a great language to develop stuff at a moderate speed.

It may well be (kinda ugly though) -- but that doesn't mean it's
appropriate for a core system facility, which often needs to work even
when the system is in a degraded state.

-Miles
-- 
`...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
 that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
 less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]



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