From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 16 01:50:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22868 for current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22859 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA02656 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:50:37 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA11005 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:50:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA03297 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:30:52 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603160930.KAA03297@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Ok, perl5 is out, but is the menu stuff ok? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:30:52 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603160800.CAA02049@main.gbdata.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Mar 16, 96 02:00:37 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Clark II wrote: > Ok, we know that perl5 is a no go:) Not once and for all. Perhaps it would convince people more when i point out again that Perl4 proved to be _really buggy_ for me? It consistently dumped core for one of my scripts, while Perl5 didn't (but this *was* a Perl4 script!). Aren't there any chances to split Perl5, so to benefit from the new technology (and bugfixes), without bloating the base system too much? The remainder (like dynamic modules) could be split off into a port. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)