From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 02:19:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA11197 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA11187 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.3/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id KAA00366; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:18:41 GMT Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:18:41 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Michael Smith cc: Nate Williams , gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: <199611220123.LAA16082@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > That is _exactly_ what this thread has been about; ref. my original > post. In my opinion, the usefulness of Perl in the base system > outweighs the 'bloat' consideration. I'm aware that bloat is an issue > of religious importance to some people, and I've been trying to > encourage one of these people (that isn't as overloaded as the rest of > us 8) to do something constructive about it without alienating the > "comfortable system" people by telling them to go pick a pile of > ports. Python is more useful to me than Perl. I'd rather see Python go into the base than Perl. Python has less bloat, is a prettier language, is stable, and stress-tested (see infoseek). Of course, we don't want to have a base w/o a Java VM too. Everyone else has plans to include one. What the heck, I'll upgrade my PC with 4Gb drives. Disk is cheap. Regards, Mike