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Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?



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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