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Subject:  Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD?
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:25:49 -0800 (PST),
owner-hackers-digest@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:

>Perl is included, although by now still Perl 4 
>(*) Don't rely on this version, and better write your scripts so they
>can work under both, Perl 4 and 5.

What do you mean by not relying on that version?