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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: What's the interest in standard tools rewritten in perl?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:52:14 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970817141632.FT54182@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 17, 97 02:16:32 pm
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> If the advantages of the prospective rewrite would outweigh the
> disadvantages (like slower startup and higher CPU load), there are
> usually only objections by the (not very large) ``anti-bloatist
> club''.

This is kind of unfair.  The club is *intentionally* "not very large"
for the obvious philosophical reasons...

8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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