From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 17 02:06:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA01000 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 02:06:13 -0800 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA00994 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 02:06:04 -0800 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.7]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA06237; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:18:59 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.9) id KAA11828; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:18:53 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:18:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199503170918.KAA11828@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Gary Clark II Cc: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tkperl? In-Reply-To: <199503151901.NAA14050@ phoenix.net> References: <199503150038.QAA22395@netcom14.netcom.com> <199503151901.NAA14050@ phoenix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Clark, II writes: > > > > > > Hi > > Anyone got patches for tkperl and perl5.000? > Amancio, > > Because I hit everyone over that head by doing the bmake and then talking > fast.:) I saw a need for a good scripting lang that had wide support. > > The reason 4.X was chosen was for the simple fact 5.0 was still in beta/alpha > and I did not want to have to handle the patch of the week syndrome. > > Gary perl 4.x is 2-3 faster than perl5. I don't optimized my perl scripts (makewhatis, catman) and use then a slow beta perl version. Many perl scripts does not work with perl5. Wolfram