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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do!
To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II)
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> Next point, people are jumping on Perl about how we have so few system
> utils based on it it should go, where are the utils based on TCL?
> (And as for incompatiable versions... Do all the ports work with
> our version of TCL?)

This is an argument *against* TCL, not an argument *for* PERL.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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