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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight!
To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:35:20 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603151432.IAA14066@compound> from "Tony Kimball" at Mar 15, 96 08:32:29 am
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Tony Kimball wrote:
> 
> 
> Even though p5 is admittedly a superior language, p4 is better for the
> base distribution because of size.  Think of it as a stanadardized
> PERL subset for small installations.
> 
> 
> 
Hello all,

I'm the one that put perl4 into FreeBSD 2.X.  I've got Perl5.002 running here
and SO far no problems.  If someone puts together a bmaked version of 
perl5.002, sends me email and if there is not too much flak,  I'll commit it
over 4.036....

Gary

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