From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 14 09:01:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA18526 for current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from antares.mcs.anl.gov (mcs.anl.gov [140.221.9.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18519 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from donner (donner.mcs.anl.gov [140.221.5.134]) by antares.mcs.anl.gov (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA07565 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:01:12 -0600 From: Jonathan Geisler Message-Id: <199603141701.LAA07050@donner> Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:01:10 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL10 (25)] 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 Many of you mentioned that Perl 5 does not have a book as a good reason for not using it. I would just like to say that I noticed O'Reilly will be releasing one this spring (April?), so that argument is not going to be valid much longer. +--------------------------------------------------+ | Jonathan Geisler | | Mathematics & Computer Science Division | | Argonne National Laboratory | | http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/geisler/index.html | +--------------------------------------------------+