From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 15:12:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA13052 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA13043 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA07627; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:12:10 -0700 (PDT) To: Tony Kimball cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:51:54 CDT." <199606222151.QAA02311@compound.Think.COM> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:12:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7625.835481530@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk So here's the $10,000 question: Would your opinion be affected were someone to upgrade perl4 to perl5 in our distribution? I daresay that our perl-using apps can be upgraded to use the newer perl with far greater ease than re-writing them in C. We have a lot of languages in FreeBSD now. Perl, TCL, C, C++, Objective-C (someday again), fortran, awk, sh - I'm probably even missing one or two. Why? Because things change and evolve over time. It's no use saying "This is my line of death! No code shall cross it!" because languges and operating systems and just about everything else around us is constantly evolving and you might as well attempt to stop the tide. Moderate, control the flow in useful ways, that's all we can do. Jordan