On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:48:24AM -0300, Daniel Capo Sobral wrote:
> >
> >>When I first wrote the loader.conf thingy, I couldn't get the value
> >>of environment variables from the FICL environment.
> >>
> > ...
> >
> >>Anyway, I have been too busy lately to do anything with FreeBSD that
> >>is not directly related to things I have to do at work, and it doesn't
> >>look like slacking up so soon. So, unfortunately, I don't have time to
> >>do any of the little things that have been cropping up with loader.
> >>
> >
> > A very good reason the loader should have used something other then a
> > language only 1% of the FreeBSD committers (and entire community) has
> > knowledge of.
>
> /me shrugs
>
> I myself questioned the wisdom of using Forth at the time, and Jordan
> simply replied I was free to find a more popular language with a freely
> available interpreter that would fit in as small a space as FICL did.
there is a Basic interpeter that fits in 1024 bytes that could be used
if extended to know about files :-)
>
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