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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! 
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:35:45 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
> 
>