Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:18:41 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961122191058.297A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199611220123.LAA16082@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > That is _exactly_ what this thread has been about; ref. my original > post. In my opinion, the usefulness of Perl in the base system > outweighs the 'bloat' consideration. I'm aware that bloat is an issue > of religious importance to some people, and I've been trying to > encourage one of these people (that isn't as overloaded as the rest of > us 8) to do something constructive about it without alienating the > "comfortable system" people by telling them to go pick a pile of > ports. Python is more useful to me than Perl. I'd rather see Python go into the base than Perl. Python has less bloat, is a prettier language, is stable, and stress-tested (see infoseek). Of course, we don't want to have a base w/o a Java VM too. Everyone else has plans to include one. What the heck, I'll upgrade my PC with 4Gb drives. Disk is cheap. Regards, Mike
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