Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <87enn6sbo1.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> from "Peter Mutsaers" at Jun 23, 96 06:55:10 pm
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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 [[
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