Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:52:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611222052.NAA15918@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199611220140.MAA16254@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 22, 96 12:10:02 pm
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> Chicken->egg, egg->chicken? I can say that I wouldn't have undertaken > what I have if Tcl wasn't a part of the standard system - too many people > would say "but it needs Tcl, and I don't want to install that because ...". > > I figure that once it is clear that Perl is intended to be a part of the > base system, and that it's a stable item not going anywhere, people > should pick up and start using it. Wouldn't it be enough for it to *seem* to be a part of the base system? If it walks like a duck... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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