From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 00:08:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29457 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA29451 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA27366; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:03:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606240703.AAA27366@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:03:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 24, 96 02:02:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. I thought the justification for bs was the same as the justification for sh: POSIX 1003.2. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.