Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:18:53 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@phoenix.net> Cc: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tkperl? Message-ID: <199503170918.KAA11828@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199503151901.NAA14050@ phoenix.net> References: <199503150038.QAA22395@netcom14.netcom.com> <199503151901.NAA14050@ phoenix.net>
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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
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