From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 23 20:58:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA19160 for current-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA19151 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA20000; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <87enn6sbo1.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> from "Peter Mutsaers" at Jun 23, 96 06:55:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Mutsaers stands accused of saying: > > Do these really warrant that perl4 (in the future perl5, which is much > bigger?) is part of the base OS? The justification for having tools like perl and Tcl in the base system is their fundamental utility, not their necessity as interpreters for other parts. Is 'bc' used by anything else, for example? Yet it's a useful thing to have. So is perl, so is Tcl, so are a number of other things. > Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | "Quod licet bovis, -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[