Talk:Expect

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Mmmm, ads. I can expect the outcome of this... hfool 22:10, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

  • keep Expect is very well known in the UNIX world. While the article needs to be rewritten, it is worth keeping. Sortior 23:39, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Ads should be deleted on sight to discourage their proliferation. This is verbatim from http://expect.nist.gov/ --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 02:47, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • keep important part of the standard unix toolkit. not an ad, it's freely available software. Wolfman 05:51, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: It's a software review. This "makes this stuff trivial," then a lot more POV reviewing of how cool this is. Wikipedia is not Freshmeat. Geogre 05:55, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete poorly-written advertising. Cdc 06:16, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Mikkalai 06:25, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. I agree with Sortior, although I would add that my son has used it on Windows systems, too. Omitting Expect from Wikipedia would be a bit like omitting the Swiss Army knife, in my opinion. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 12:57, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Article is too light though, and too techy. Standard UNIX tool. Not an adv. Can be obtained free of charge with no registration.
  • Keep. I agree with everyone else who points out how notable Expect is. The page could use a heavy-duty rewrite, but we've got articles for things like dd and Perl. --Plutor 16:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep and ignore the Microsoft tools. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 17:07, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep I cleaned up what's there, as well. Wyss 00:47, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep it. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 04:57, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Trollminator 02:37, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep - I expanded the article to include information regarding ports of the tool to python and perl. It is a key tool used in industry (I work for a major technology company, and use expect in Perl extensively - and have used tcl/expect on previous projects over the years; as I move projects to python, I am also porting the expect functionality) - and without Don's work on the original Tcl/Expect, we would not have the portable and easy to use automation we have today in other languages. In fact, you could view python's twisted project as a spin-off of the Expect concept for automated interaction. From a historical perspective I think it is an important (if underrated) piece of the internet history...I think the article can be further improved beyond my quick edits (the 'pros' and 'cons' section are too Windows-centric imho).

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