Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:39:57 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@mt.sri.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611221039.LAA02883@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961122191058.297A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Nov 22, 96 07:18:41 pm
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In reply to Michael Hancock who wrote:
>
> 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
Ahh, another one bites the dust...
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