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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl4 (was: tcl 7.6 & tk 4.2)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:26:47 -0600 (CST)
Cc: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au, plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <5329.855637915@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 10, 97 09:11:55 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > But it appears that isn't going to happen in the near future.
>
> Well, it's happening, just slowly and as people find the energy
> to really dive in and "contrib" something. That would be a good
> project for Perl5, but everyone runs when that one's brought
> up! :-)
I'm willing to do it.
Can someone point me towards "THE" paper on how to do contrib
if there is such an animal? Is there a good keyword set
for the archives I could use?
> > So we should 'bite the bullet' and as they say in the Nike
> > ads, "just do it". If a better scheme is invented later, then
> > we take that issue up then since more than Perl is affected.
>
> Well, as Sean Connery's character said in "The Untouchables",
> "Just what are you prepared to do?"
>
> :-)
>
> Jordan
>
Gary
P.S. contributions of "dark" beer for afterwards is requested...:)
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