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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970817191153.25065A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Aug 17, 97 07:14:10 pm"
To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:05:17 +0200 (MEST)
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In reply to Tim Vanderhoek who wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> [re: make the world with perls]
> 
> > base utils. For one this is a total waste of time (and maybe talent),
> 
> Of course, perhaps the holder of this time & talent has no
> interest in doing anything "better".  :-)

Hmm, right...

> > the other is that it will render us completely incompatible with the
> > rest of the BSD world. I think that nobody would be stupid enough to
> > willingly takeover that kind of maintenance burden...
> 
> No, since presumably we will gain such huge advantages by
> rewriting everything in perl that the rest of the BSD world will
> have little choice but to adopt our version.

That will be the day :), well at least we will serve the same purpose
as Micro$lot then, make sure that you have to get the latest greatest
hardware to get mediocre performance, sigh....


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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
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