Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:03:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <199606240703.AAA27366@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 24, 96 02:02:18 pm
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> 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.
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