Re: A few potential requirements

[Jon Saperia <saperia@jdscons.com>]

> > John, I find it far easier to develop applications that manage devices
> > when using an API/library approach rather than parsers and interpreters.
> 
> but the operators have not.  not sure why not.  much may be historical.
> much is because we have sooooo many text-based tools available to us, and we
> don't have to pay someone for them.  aside from emacs, diff, cvs, lex/yacc,
> etc, folk even post snippets of configs to ops mailing lists and argue about
> them.
> 
> the names of the no-cli vendors are engraved in our memories.  has to be
> in our memories, as none of them are with us today.  that was a hint.

Randy, as you know, few advocate for no cli. You generalize from one
vendor that did a stupid thing. It does not serve your purpose to
dismiss all other approaches. We know the no cli approach is not
acceptable, lets move on.

> 
> randy
> 

Thanks,
/jon
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