From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 13:08:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA17639 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17609 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA15918; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:52:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611222052.NAA15918@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:52:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611220140.MAA16254@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 22, 96 12:10:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.