From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 14 01:22:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA10473 for current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA10463 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA03700 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:22:12 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA24846 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:20:42 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA26201 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:20:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA00828 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:52:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603140852.JAA00828@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:52:50 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603132305.XAA28625@tees> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 13, 96 11:05:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Richards wrote: > Given that the momentum is very much against switching to perl 5 > (for this and similar reasons) I think we'd stay more compatible > with the rest of the world sticking with perl 4 for the moment. Follow comp.lang.perl (which should better be named comp.lang.cgi mostly :), and mention that you are still running Perl 4. You'll see the word ``obsolete'' in reply... Btw., i've got Perl4 scripts that core-dumped the original perl 4, while running fine under /usr/local/bin/perl. I'm all for switching, and fixing what might become broken. If we never start, we'll never arrive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)