Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:59:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: shigio@wafu.netgate.net (Shigio Yamaguchi) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shigio@wafu.netgate.net Subject: Re: htags fails. Message-ID: <199804140159.SAA05892@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199804121712.KAA29327@hub.freebsd.org> from "Shigio Yamaguchi" at Apr 13, 98 02:12:24 am
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> It seems that /usr/bin/perl leaks memory. > Here is a workaround. > > # cd /cdrom/packages/lang > # pkg_add perl-5.00401.tgz > # mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.org > # ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl > > Why is /usr/bin/perl version 4.0? Because Perl 5 is not backward compatible in various areas, and people have scripts that depend on the old syntax, which break under the new (gratuitously changed for no good reason) syntax. The scripts need to be changed, preferrably by the perl maintainers, the better to teach them to either avoid syntax changes and/or think about the problems the language needs to solve before implementing syntax which will later need to be changed because it wasn't Von Neumann complete. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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