Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:35:45 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611221035.CAA15982@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:18:41 %2B0900." <Pine.SV4.3.95.961122191058.297A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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Shouldn't we move this thread to something like chat or to a nice Bar. The nice thing about Bars is that as the night progresses the topic does die off 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Michael Hancock : > 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 > >
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