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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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