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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:06:49 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20000626230648.J275@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:57:05PM -0700
References:  <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> <XFMail.000627123702.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com>

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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> [000626 21:44] wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:37:02PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Except that Perl fullfilled a function not present in the system
> 
> Somebody please remind me again what perl does for us that we could not
> have done in sh/awk/sed/tr etc.

Had 'use strict' and warnings been mandated for source entering
the system ala some sort of perl-style(9) we'd have some pretty
easy to parse scripts.  However as it stands now... :)

-Alfred


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