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To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
cc: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Perl4 (was: tcl 7.6 & tk 4.2) 
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:11:55 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> But it appears that isn't going to happen in the near future.

Well, it's happening, just slowly and as people find the energy
to really dive in and "contrib" something.  That would be a good
project for Perl5, but everyone runs when that one's brought
up! :-)

> So we should 'bite the bullet' and as they say in the Nike
> ads, "just do it". If a better scheme is invented later, then
> we take that issue up then since more than Perl is affected.

Well, as Sean Connery's character said in "The Untouchables",
"Just what are you prepared to do?"

:-)

					Jordan