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Date:      Wed, 06 Dec 1995 19:21:13 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        daemon@bee.cs.kiev.ua (System Daemon), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' list)
Subject:   Re: your mail 
Message-ID:  <1055.818274073@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 08:54:13 %2B0100." <199512060754.IAA07430@keltia.freenix.fr> 

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> It seems that System Daemon said:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > perl -U -le 'unlink(shift) while scalar @ARGV' ${1+"$@"}
> 
> The C version should not be that much longer.
> 
> > I vote for putting a static copy of perl 5 into /bin.  It can do (almost)
> > everything, and you can provide a handful of commands there.
> 
> Although I like and use Perl  5, I don't want  it in /bin. The perl version
> in /usr/bin is fine. As for Perl 5,  if you really  want to push for it, at
> least wait for 5.002 which in beta1 just now. 

I think we can say confidently that it will probably not happen for
a long time.  I think I know several people who would go a long way
to avoid anything of that sort.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.



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