Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:05:25 GMT From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: current@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603132305.XAA28625@tees>
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> What are the reasons we do not now have Perl5 in the main tree? I have > a query from one of our more perl-literate users who made the suggestion > that Perl4 should be in ports/. > > What say y'all? > The old perl4 perl5 argument again, get a lot of this at work. I'd say that until Larry writes a Perl 5 book so that there's some easily accessible documentation for it then most people will stick with perl 4 unless they have a particular need for perl5. Given that the momentum is very much against switching to perl 5 (for this and similar reasons) I think we'd stay more compatible with the rest of the world sticking with perl 4 for the moment. We'd also have to fix all the perl code we use if we switch to perl 5.
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