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Why would they create an scripting language just to develop YaST? The language feels very familiar though, check http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/YaST/SLES10/td

• Argorak 13y ago
  Well, SuSE is german. And germans have an interesting case of NIH. For example, they invent scripting languages for their syslog deamons: http://www.rainerscript.com/ http://www.rainerscript.com/
  • SEJeff 13y ago
    That's kind of a racist comment and being German, I'm vaguely offended. However, I wouldn't fully disagree with you. This is almost the text book definition of NIH: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering
    • nathanb 13y ago
      In his defense, systemd does solve some fundamental problems with sysV-style init. Incrementally improving the disparate sysV init systems to be more concurrent and robust would likely have benefitted the community less, and at the end of the day it still would not have looked like the familiar init system sysV users are used to.
    • Argorak 13y ago
      Just so you know: I am german as well. Also, the comment is not racist.