From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 16:29:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D0416A46E for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAAC13C459 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1305146wxd for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.71.3 with SMTP id t3mr7230089aga.1183566593496; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 35sm656103wra.2007.07.04.09.29.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:30:04 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: References: <20070703163610.GA6012@ayn.mi.celestial.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070704121712.20F6.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.31 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re[2]: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:29:54 -0000 On July 04, 2007 at 09:53AM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip] > Actually perl has a lot of problems too. One of the biggest is that > perl script writers always seem to think like you, in that perl is > consistent across all platforms. > > The biggest problems I've seen with perl scripts are when people use > perl extensions that are not on the system. You then have to go find > the extension they use and very few of the perl script writers seem > to be smart enough to put a section at the beginning of their scripts > that define the CPAN location of the particular extensions they are > using. The second biggest problem is perl script writers using > constructs that are valid in Perl 5.6 and later but not valid in > Perl 5.0 I don't know how many times I've wanted to strangle > someone when trying to run a perl script under Perl 5.0 that had > ONE single friggin statement in the entire thousand line script that > isn't valid under 5.0 but is under 5.6 And I've also run across > a number of Perl extensions that won't run under 5.0 as well, even > though the authors are supposed to regression test under 5.0 I was under the impression that Perl 5.6.0 was released on 2000-Mar-22, while Perl 5.000 was issued on or about 1994-Oct-17. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why anyone would be using such an antiquated version. I have a rather limited knowledge of Perl; however, I am not going to be bothered regression testing it under a seven year old obsoleted version. I believe that FreeBSD-3.4 was released around 12/21/1999 or there about. Should we also be testing against that version also? -- Gerard