From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 05:39:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18382 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18375; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13320; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:43 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199610241233.OAA13320@grumble.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Andrew Stesin , Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers , committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:43 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "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. -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key