Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:28:42 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Mutt.19961120162842.davidn@sdev> In-Reply-To: <199611192100.OAA09524@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Nov 19, 1996 14:00:19 -0700 References: <Mutt.19961119210759.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> <199611192100.OAA09524@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > The problem, again, is that the change cycle on PERL has historically > been too short to base a FreeBSD release on a PERL release... PERL > is moving faster than FreeBSD, in other words. Which then begs the question - why use perl at all? Yes, I use it quite a bit, but in a base distribution I don't really see it as an appropriate tool. It is certainly easier that programming in, say, bourne shell, and probably significantly faster too. But I still think it is a mistake it being part of the base system. David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn
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