From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 02:40:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA12054 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA12048 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:40:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA02883; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:39:57 +0100 Message-Id: <199611221039.LAA02883@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:39:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@mt.sri.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Nov 22, 96 07:18:41 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.