Greg Reagle wrote: > It occurred to me that environment variables can be used to configure a > program, instead of programming in a parser or extension language into a > program. Are there any reasons not to just use environment variables? Then a > rc file could just be a shell script that sets environment variables. Do you > know of any programs that do this? I assume there are disadvantages, but > what?
Heyho Greg, you still have to parse the contents of the environment variables compared to static compiled in configuration as in config.h. --Markus
