Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:04:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nik@blueberry.co.uk, davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611212334.KAA15204@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199611211744.LAA28802@main.gbdata.com> from Gary Clark II at "Nov 21, 96 11:44:06 am"
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Gary Clark II stands accused of saying: > > I am the Perl person unless someone stands forth. I brought 4.036 in > back in 2.0 and have been waiting for the wrangling to be done with before > I bring in 5.003/4. I have no problem doing this. I also need to > "REMOVE" the current info in the tree and update to the latest. No > big deal, except for the flamage I would catch. I think that opinion on this is settling. Thanks for standing up, too. > Next point, people are jumping on Perl about how we have so few system > utils based on it it should go, where are the utils based on TCL? Wrong mentality. I have about 20,000 lines of Tcl here in out product which load a couple of custom libraries and talk to our hardware. This is what having Tcl in the tree is about, and is why I see Perl in the tree as a Very Good Thing. > (And as for incompatiable versions... Do all the ports work with > our version of TCL?) All except a very few have been cleanly converted. > Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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