From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 15:36:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26147 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26125; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA15204; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:04:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611212334.KAA15204@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: <199611211744.LAA28802@main.gbdata.com> from Gary Clark II at "Nov 21, 96 11:44:06 am" To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:04:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nik@blueberry.co.uk, davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Clark II stands accused of saying: > > I am the Perl person unless someone stands forth. I brought 4.036 in > back in 2.0 and have been waiting for the wrangling to be done with before > I bring in 5.003/4. I have no problem doing this. I also need to > "REMOVE" the current info in the tree and update to the latest. No > big deal, except for the flamage I would catch. I think that opinion on this is settling. Thanks for standing up, too. > 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? Wrong mentality. I have about 20,000 lines of Tcl here in out product which load a couple of custom libraries and talk to our hardware. This is what having Tcl in the tree is about, and is why I see Perl in the tree as a Very Good Thing. > (And as for incompatiable versions... Do all the ports work with > our version of TCL?) All except a very few have been cleanly converted. > Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[