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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
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I wonder how many of you whould have written similar to
argue against the inclusion of awk, sed, yacc, lex & csh,
using the very same arguments, in earlier days of unix ?

Tcl and perl represent a significant development in programming,
and you guys argue that they should not be in our favourite 
state-of-the-art UNIX ?

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