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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Perl 5 is in ports, do you really think we need _both_ perl and perl5?  
> Because I don't think we can dump perl yet.

I think you can, considering that perl5 can run in complete perl4 
compatibility. Plus as someone said before, we are going to have to 
rewrite our system perl scripts anyways, so why not do it now.

> Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2

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