Init : someone could comment this ?

[Casey Dahlin]

Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:16 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>   
>> As for rewriting some of the scripts themselves in a non-bash
>> language, there may be an advantage. I don't know if I like python in
>> particular for this roll (maybe something like Haskell that has proven
>> to be light and quick as well as nicer to deal with) but python is 
>>     
>
> Oh please, I hope you're not being serious! I mean Haskell is cool
> and all, but it is rather obscure for the vast majority of people,
> and the last thing we need is yet another strange language mixed in
> such a critical part of the system.
>
> The entire point of having a scripting language in the init scripts
> is for the admins to have a chance of making small adjustments easily.
> If we use Haskell, we lose 99.99% of the population right there.
> We might as well just code them in C: that would provide for faster
> start-up AND it will be accessible to most people.
>
>   
I don't know that I find Haskell to be that obscure, but point taken.

--CJD