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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:43 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. 
Message-ID:  <199610241233.OAA13320@grumble.grondar.za>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> I think we were waiting for Perl5 to shake out, and with good reason.
> Many parts of the PERL programming world still had yet to shift
> themselves, which was another good reason to stick with Perl4.

Sure.

> Nowdays, I don't know.  First off, how much bigger is it going to
> make our default source tree and second, is the perl world really
> ready for /usr/bin/perl to be perl5 by default?

I think so. I have had a bit of mail from the perl community asking for it.

We use a lot of Perl at work - and the first thing most of our folk
do is install perl5.
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